CD-0001 Chapter 1: Study Guide
14 Jul 2015
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Behavior modi cation: combines conditioning and modeling to rid of unwanted behaviors. Behaviorism: directly observable events: watson: baby albert; classical conditioning applied to children, skinner: operant conditioning; reinforce. Normative approach: measures of behavior taken on individuals and age related averages are found; represents typical development (gessel) James mark baldwin said nature and nurture are of equal weight, children actively revise thinking, and that a child and his/her social surroundings affect each other. Ethology: adaptive behavior and its history; critical period (biologically prepared for certain behaviors) and sensitive period (optimal for certain capacities to develop) Evolutionary: adaptive values of species; understand behavior origins and development. Theory: children actively construct knowledge; revise incorrect ideas: piaget: sensorimotor, preoperational (no logic, make believe play), concrete operational (object pertinence), formal operational (abstract logic & systematic reasoning)
