PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Mitosis, John Bowlby, Behavioural Genetics
3 Dec 2012
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Skinner"s radical behaviourism: outlined principles of operant conditioning. Focused on the outcome of behaviour for predicting future occurrences of that behaviour. Reinforcers increase the probability of something happening again. Bandura"s cognitive social learning theory: bobo experiment. Observational learning is stressed: learning by observing others (models) Cognitive development theories: jean piaget - schemes more complex with development. An organized pattern of thought or action that a child uses to make sense of an experience. Preoperational = use symbols, start to imagine things. Concrete operations = logical thought better at inferring other peoples" motives. Piaget focused more on how children think and how this changes across time in lieu of what the environment is like. Mitosis: original parent cell. the chromosomes split and duplicate, and then the cells split. Meiosis: there"s a crossing over of chromosomes, then they split and there ends up being half the regular number of chromosomes. This crossing over makes us genetically unique.
