PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Susan Carey, Elizabeth Spelke, Albert Bandura

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Week 16: major theories of developmental psychology online lesson. Classical conditioning example: little albert performed by john b. watson and. Intermittently reinforced behaviour is sometimes not rewarded affects the expectations of the reinforcement, individual not surprised if behaviour is not rewarded and the perception remains that next time there may be a reward. Skinner theorized that we reinforce unwanted behaviour in children by giving into demands providing intermittent reinforcement of their demanding behaviour. Schema: mental framework or bod of knowledge that organized and synthesizes information about a person, place, or thing. Assimilation: process by which new information about the world is incorporated into existing schemata. Accommodation: process by which existing schemata are modified or changed by new experiences. Equilibration: process within piaget"s theory that reorganizes schemata, person will hold a more advanced schema after equilibration. Object permanence: feature of piaget"s sensorimotor period marked by the understanding that objects do not disappear when they are out of sight.

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