CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dispositional Attribution, Language Acquisition Device, Anorexia Nervosa

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Pysch 105 notes: learning, a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience, 3 theories of learning. Diminishing of a conditioned response: spontaneous recovery. The reappearance of an extinguished response: stimulus generalization, stimuli similar to cs elicit similar response, e. g. Little albert: stimulus discrimination, the learned ability to distinguish between a cs and other stimuli that do not signal a ucs, garcia effect o. Observational/ social learning: learning by association. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. Conditioning: learning associations between events in our environment, lnaguage development, sensitiveity period. When children are not exposed to any human language before age 12, their language abilities may never fully develop. Nativist theory: noam chomsky, native ability, language acquisition device. Conditioning/ learning theory: b. f skinner, argued children learn language through imitation, reinforcement and conditioning, babies are positively reinforced for learning proper utterances, parents can control reinforcement. Imitation: envir components, culture, ses, birth order, school, peers, parents, bilingualism.