PSYC 7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Learning Theory, Observational Learning, Lev Vygotsky
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Theory: an organized set of ideas that is designed to explain development. Universal vs. context-specific development (how much is affected by culture) Human development: examines how and why people change and how they remain the same over time; how and why people are both unique and similar to each other. Basic forces in human development, the biopsychosocial framework. Lifecycle forces: identical events, but at different age groups. Meta analysis: analysis of multiple studies that all examined the same research questions and variables and allows scientists to verify whether the same relationships among variables are replicated across multiple studies. Learning (behaviorism and social learning theory) a. b. John watson: there is no nature, only nurture (blank slate) Skinner (operant conditioning): the consequences of a behavior determine whether it will be repeated i. ii. A positive or negative reinforcement increases the chance that a behavior will be repeated. A punishment decreases the chance that behavior will be repeated c.
