PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Legal Drinking Age, Child Development, Behaviorism
3 Jul 2019
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Johns hopkins university: alfred binet (in france, developed first tests of mental ability, tests could be used to identify school children at risk, revealed individual differences in children, john b. watson, founder of behaviourism movement. 6: are children simply at mercy of their environment or do they actively influence their own development through their unique individual characteristics, active vs. Theoretical approaches: what is a developmental theory, an organized set of ideas that is designed to explain development, theories generate testable hypotheses or predictions to explain development, types of theories, biological, maturational, ethological, psychodynamic, freud, piaget, erikson. 9: albert conditioned to fear white rats, skinner, studied learning in rats using what is now termed as. Skinner box : cognitive social learning, albert bandura, theory emphasizing imitation of social models, children learn not only through classical and operant conditioning, but also through observing and imitating others, information processing approaches.
