PSYCH 560 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vocal Folds, Operant Conditioning, Habituation
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Nature in your genes and gets expressed over your lifetime innate. Locke empiricism: child is a tabula rasa blank slate. Experience-dependent change change as a function of experience: environmental factors (native language, effects of child abuse, nutrition), learning (conditioned responses, playing the piano), effects of experience (food preferences, development of prejudice) Continuous: process of small changes (tree growing taller) Discontinuous: series of sudden (transition from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly) Interaction 5: bird-song: marler critical period where there is a certain amount of time where they can learn their song. Rousseau innately pure: noble savages corrupted by society. Psychosexual theory: develops during childhood (id, ego, etc. function of adults is product of their childhood. Watson, skinner: stimulus/response learning, anyone can learn anything equipotentiality, operant conditioning: use of external stimuli to influence behavior. Bell and ainsworth responses to young infants" crying. Strengths: good for questions about natural interactions, generalize results.
