PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Seat Belt, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning
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Chapter 6: cognitive development birth to age 3. As 1 of the 2 major approaches of learning theory, behaviorism or the behaviorist approach is interested in how we learn how behavior changes in response to experience. Babies are born with ability to learn from what they see, hear, smell, taste and touch. This a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) the(cid:374) de(cid:448)elops as pa(cid:396)t of the (cid:272)hild"s (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. 2 important processes behaviorists study to understand how we learn are classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Toddler, ava, blinked whenever she saw the camera flash go off. One day, ava at 11 months old, saw her father hold the camera up and blinked before the flash went off. This is an example of classical conditioning (cc) in which a person learns to make a reflex or involuntary response (ex. Blinking) to a stimulus (camera) that originally did not provoke the response.
