PSY 457LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Object Permanence, Learning Object, Little Albert Experiment
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Nature (rationalism): we may seem to learn from experience, but we knew it all along. Nurture (empiricism): it may look as if your knowledge exceeds our experience, but it was all first in the senses. Constructivism: children create their own understanding of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting from those experiences. Nativist: innate knowledge and innate learning mechanism impose biases in interpretation of certain domains of information. Empiricist: people born as blank slates - all that is available is a general learning mechanisms that is applied across cognitive domains. Interested in how child interpret psychics, numbers, liquids, morality. Studied children by questioning them on their reasoning. Constantly update understanding of the world around them. Children and adults are fundamentally diff in how they think. Children development can be characterized in terms of stages. At any given point in development can be characterized in terms of stages. At birth, child"s cognitive system restricted to motor reflects.
