CFD 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Learning Theory, Abstraction, Observational Learning
2 Feb 2018
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Behaviorism & social learning: classical conditioning, stimulus response, operant conditioning, reinforces and punishments, social cognitive approach, modeling self-efficacy. Limitations of behaviorism and social learning theory: too narrow a view of important environmental influences, underestimates children"s contributions, bandura"s work is unique in that it grants children an active role in their own learning, bobo the doll. Information processing: human mind as symbol-manipulating system, researchers often design flowcharts to map problem-solving steps. Ethology: concerned with the adaptive or survival value of behavior and its evolutionary history, roots traced to darwin, imprinting, critical period, sensitive period. Sensitive period: an optimal time for certain capacities to emerge, boundaries less clearly defined than a critical period. Evolutionary developmental psychology: seeks to understand adaptive value of human competencies, studies cognitive, emotional, and social competencies as they change with age, expands upon ethology, wants to understand the entire organism environment system.
