PSYB20H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6
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Chapter 6- cognitive development, birth to age 3. One of the 2 major approaches of learning theory, behvaiourims is interestd in how we learn how behaviour changes in response to experience. 2 important processes to study how we learn : classical and operant. Person lerans to make a reflex or involuntary response to a stimulus that originally did not provide the response. Enables infants to anticipate an event before it happens by perfoming assoications b/w stimuli that regularly occur together. It extincts or fades if not reinforeced by repeated associations. Learns to make a certain responst o environmental stimulus in order to proude a particular effect: either reinforemcents which increase behvaiours or punishments which decrease beahviours. Conditioning can also be psoiteve (adding stimulus to envoinrment) or negative (removing a stmilus from environment) Psychometric approach to child development measures quantitative differences in abilite sthat make up intelligences by suing tests that indicate or predict tthese abilities.
