PSYCO223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Cognitive Theory, Cognitive Neuroscience, Object Permanence
10 May 2017
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In order to understand development, you must focus on observable behavior and the stimuli that exist in an individuals" environment. A. classical conditioning: learning that occurs when an organism responds in a certain way to a neutral stimulus that does not normally bring about that particular response: operant conditioning: consequences of behavior produce changes in probability of behavior. Behaviors is contingent upon whether they are reinforced (increasing) or punished (decreasing). Inconsistent in reinforcement can make behaviour reinforcement go wrong: bandura"s social cognitive theory: May adopt behaviors, thoughts, and feelings accordingly: cognitive perspective: processes that enable individuals to know, understand, and think. schema: a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Scheme: stabilize activity to acquire knowledge in a particular domain. Assimilation: using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation.
