PSYC 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Developmental Psychology, Relate, Little Albert Experiment
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The specific stages and the timing is completely irrelevant today. Hull: descriptive research, went in to the classroom and asked questions to students. Adaptation of intelligence in construction of own structures: by structuring the environment they are in, that"s how the child"s intelligence will grow. Cognitive relations not based on a simple copy of external object. Interaction of the individual and the external world: ability to associate/relate information, you make relations out of your prior experiences, memory is not just a snapshot of your experience, memory is constructive = we construct it. Active infant: not if they are not interested or habituated. Affordances: some basic info they have in order to pick up regularities in their environment, commonality of info across the modality (visual, auditory), this helps them to relate the info. Ex: ball bounces to floor, there"s sound when hits the floor. Infants do not distinguish between external world and self.
