ANTHROP 2FF3 Study Guide - Language Acquisition Device, Social Learning Theory, Reinforcement

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2FF3
• Professor: Bridget O' Shaughnessy

Document Summary

Levels of analysis: psychological: intuitive level, thoughts, emotions, memories, biological: physiological mechanisms, environmental: how social, cultural and learning interactions affect. Cognitive perspective: psychology had to be studied from the processes of the brain: Internal processes (thoughts, learning, attention: models = abstract representation of how mind function. othey simplify complex processes. omodels must be tested and compared with what we know oabandon old model for new model if better. Biological perspective: reductionism: all behavior = reduced to biology of brain, branches / extensions: cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging tools = used to examine brain (mri- structure focused, functional mri change in chemistry focused. ) Evolutionary perspective: looks @ influence of environmental / genetic factors on behaviours, looks at ultimate cause, looks across many generations of species. Socio-cultural perspective: looks @ factors that influence the behavior of individual , ex. influence of individual on group, group on individual, group group on group.