PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Classical Conditioning, Perceptual Learning, Active Child

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 251
• Professor: Elizabeth Anne Kelley

Document Summary

Chapter 5- seeing, thinking, and doing in infancy. Perceptual learning: differentiation- extracting from the constantly changing stimulation of events in the environment the relation of those elements that are constant- invariant or stable, ex. Statistical learning: detecting statistically predictable patterns, our natural environment contains a high degree of regularity and redundancy; certain events occur in a predictable order; certain objects appear at the same place and at the same time etc, e(cid:454). Mo(cid:373)"s (cid:448)oi(cid:272)e is follo(cid:449)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) the appea(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e of he(cid:396) fa(cid:272)e. If the infant performs the target behaviour, then he or she receives the reinforcement: active child theme: infants work hard at learning to predict and control their experience, and they display positive emotions during peaks in performance. Infants may also learn that there are situations over which they have no control over. If (cid:272)hoosi(cid:374)g to i(cid:373)itate a (cid:373)odel, i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts see(cid:373) to a(cid:374)al(cid:455)ze the (cid:396)easo(cid:374) fo(cid:396) the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s behaviour: based on their a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis of the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)s.