PSYB20H3 Chapter 6: PSYB20 Ch. 6 - Cognitive Development, Birth to Age 3
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Behaviourism, or the behaviourist approach, is interested in how we learn how behaviour changes in response to experience. Babies are born with the ability to learn from what they see, hear, smell, taste, and touch this ability then develops as part of the child"s cognitive development. Two important processes behaviorists study to understand how we learn are: (1) classical conditioning and (2) operant conditioning. Behaviourist approach: an approach to the study of behavioural development that is concerned with the basic mechanics of learning. Classical conditioning enables infants to anticipate an event before it happens by forming associations between stimuli (such as the camera and the flash) that regularly occur together. Classically conditioning learning becomes extinct, or fades, if it is not reinforced by repeated association (i. e. , if ava often saw the camera without the bright flash, she would stop blinking)
