PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Little Albert Experiment, Tabula Rasa, Psychosexual Development
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Conflicts arise from repressed sexual and aggressive drives\ Id vs ego vs superego: oral: pleasure derived from chewing, eating, anal: voluntary urination becomes necessary, phallic: pleasure derived from genital stimulation, latency: conflicts repressed into schoolwork and vigorous play. View the child as tabula rasa (blank slate) to be written on by experience. Little albert experiment to prove fear is learned by environment surroundings: skinner"s operant conditioning. Enforce rewarding acts and avoid punishing acts: bandura"s cognitive social learning theory. Emphasized observational learning as central to development. Piaget and binet then later developed the iq test to measure intelligence. Vygotsky"s sociocultural theory focused how culture values are passed on across generations. Children learned best when instruction is geared to match their zone to proximal development the difference between what a child can do individually and what they can do with assistances. The computer analogy development as age-related changes that occur in the mind"s hardware (brain, pns) and software (attention, perception, etc. )
