PSY414H1 Lecture Notes - Moral Development, Social Learning Theory, Internal Control
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Differences with radical behaviourism: in slt, both cognition and affect are considered important, reject the fundamental grounding assumption of behaviourism that a science of behaviour can only focus on overt responses (skinner, cognitive aspects: Types of representations of external events that people o experience o o o. Aronfreed"s theory: concerned with specifying mechanisms that lead to internalization (of morality, key is internalization, morality is defined as the imposition of social standards, child is initially uncontrolled and uncontrollable. Forbidden toy paradox and strength of internalization in a child. Paradigm design to operationalize and test for presence. Forbidden toy paradigm: phase 1: training phase o, child presented with two toys, one attractive, one not, punished for choosing attractive toy. Experimenter would say, no! and deprive the child of candy. Experimenter wouldn"t elaborate: very quickly, children would come to choose the unattractive toys. Learn this very quickly: basic conditioning experiment.
