PSYCH 2AA3 Chapter Notes -Tabula Rasa, Behaviorism, Nicotine

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AA3
• Professor: Jeff Landry

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Leaders in this new field were g. stanley hall (theories of child development). The biological perspective: maturational theory is when child development reflects a specific and prearranged scheme or plan within the body, gesell"s view states that development is simply a natural unfolding of a biological plan; experience matters little. Learning theories endorse john locke"s view that the infant"s mind is a blank slate on which experience writes. John watson was the first theorist to apply this approach to child development: he argued that learning determines what children will be-experience determined the course of development, early learning theories. Ivan pavlov first showed that a previously neutral stimulus could become associated whit a naturally occurring response and eventually come to elicit a similar response on its own- aka classical conditioning. B. f. skinner studied operant conditioning in which the consequences of a behaviour determine whether that behaviour is repeated in the future. 2 kinds of consequences were influential reinforcement/punishment.