PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Irreversible Process, Fast Mapping, Behaviorism
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Cognitive development, birth to 3 and early childhood. Behaviourist approach: basic mechanics of learning - chapter 6. Classical conditioning: = associating a stimulus that does not elicit a particular response with another stimulus that does elicit the response. Learning based on: reinforcement: increase behaviours, you reinforce something to keep occurring, punishment: decrease behaviours, you punish when you want something to stop, can be: Positive -> adding a stimulus to the environment. Negative -> removing a stimulus from the environment: tend to repeat behaviours that lead to favorable outcomes, repeat a behaviour that has been reinforced, eg. ) Giving attention = positive reinforcement, timeout = negative punishment, getting paid = positive reinforcement and turning off an alarm = negative reinforcement: used in research to ask babies questions about what they know. Intermittent reinforcement is inconsistent response to the behaviour of another person. Makes behaviours resistant to extinction (behaviour persists longer after removal of reinforcement)
