HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Informed Consent, Social Cognitive Theory, Naturalistic Observation
4 Apr 2016
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Cognitive theories: behavioral & social cognitive theories, skinner operant conditioning. Consequences influence the probability of the behavior occurance. Patterns of behaviors are changes due to rewards & punishments: bandura social cognitive theory. Suggests humans are cognitive beings and their active processing of information play a critical role in their learning, behavior and development. Suggested children can learn even when they don"t imitate behavior: ethological theory. Focus on biological and evolutionary basis of development. Suggests that development can take a variety of paths depending on the complex interactions from the context in which an individual lives. Research on life-span development: data collection methods. Special situation designed to elicit behavior of interest. Can provide a rich picture of atypical development. Hormone levels, heart rate, eye movement, brain activity: research types. Can be used with any method of data collection. Determining whether two or more variables are related in a systematic way. Find a correlation coefficient (from -1 to 1)
