PSYC 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Jean Piaget
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Classical drive-reduction theory does not explain exploratory behaviors: w. white: the concept of competence (1957): exploratory behavior reflects effectance motives: motives to have an effect on the environment. The child assimilates new information and accomodates behavior to that new information. The restructured understanding allows a new level of assimilation. The child is intrinsically motivated by aliments: information that is assimilable but not fully accomodated. Children become competent in the context of exploratory play. They are intrinsically motivated to try new things (assimilation): Media entertainment has always been suffused with sex and. Greek plays, aboriginal myths, grimm"s fairy tales, shakespeare, etc . Also, people appear to be attracted to experiencing negative as. Strongly sexual and violent scenes are powerfully encoded in. Social learning about emotions is different than other kinds of. New evidence relating to mirror neurons shows that observing. Action leads to activation of analogous systems in the observer"s. Emotional appeals vary with the mtv video and with gender.
