Psychology 2410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Romanian Orphans, Grey Matter, Joint Attention

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Adam Cohen

Document Summary

Engineering perspective: more than one reason to build a learning mechanism rather than structures that are ready to use without specific inputs in some cases developmentally reliable info is stored in the environment and can be exploited o. Easier to engineer a developing visual system that took advantage of the reliably present input rather than build the system to the adult form without such input- in natural setting will always encounter the appropriate stimuli. Second engineering problem learning might solve= learning gives opportunity to assess circumstances before choosing a strategy, instead of relying on regularities in environment in order to develop typically they learn abut their specific circumstance o. Social facilitative adaptions: adaptions designed to respond to specific cues in the social environment allowing one to pursue the most advantageous social strategy circumstances some learning mechanisms design to do just that. Learning ones circumstances allow one to calibrate behaviour that is optimal for ones life.