SOSC 1800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism
10 Mar 2016
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This chapter is about perspectives between psychological and biological in nature- nurture of human development. The psychological perspective on children development is contributed to psychoanalysis, behaviourism and cognitivism. It is an approach between children and parents, to demonstrate children"s perception of the events and how they react it on themselves. So it is important that parents to keep everything positive in front of their children, otherwise they will mimic the negative events. Terming operant conditioning by b. f. skinner, children are encouraged to behave in certain ways so they can extinct and reward the positive application. Therefore, children are manipulating ideas mentally while growing up, and it is profoundly influenced children development. However, biological perspective views children development is based on nature and nurture. It is about the physical body are born with shapes of abilities, and the natural functioning is affecting the brain on human perception. Therefore, thinking and action are manipulated by chemical reaction on human.
