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APA Dictionary of Psychology 2nd Ed [2015].pdf. Report. Share. Download. APA Dictionary of Psychology SECOND EDITION. ...
- PSYCHODYNAMICS AND ETHOLOGY
- GRAND THEORIES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
- INFORMATION PROCESSING AND COMPUTATIONAL ACCOUNTS OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
- THE ROLE OF THEORIES IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
- Behaviourism
- classical conditioning
- operant conditioning
- maturational approach
- Maturational theory
- psychodynamic theory
- psychosocial theory
- observational learning
The psychodynamic approach Ethological theory and John Bowlby
Social learning theory Piaget’s constructionism Vygotsky and sociocultural development Nativist theories of cognitive development
Neo-Piagetian information processing accounts Computational accounts of development NEUROSCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES
As we explained in Chapter 1, developmental psychologists undertake their work in order to answer two key questions: (i) to describe developmental change, and (ii) to explain developmental change. The job of theories of developmental psychology is to advance coherent and plausible solutions to these questions about how and why developmental change ...
In Chapter 1, we described how a major discussion in develop-mental psychology concerns whether devel-opment is characterized as continuous (gradual) or discontinuous (sudden). Behaviourism argued that development was characterized by continuous and gradual changes in behaviour. behaviourism A school of psychology prominent in the early twentiet...
A type of learning in which two stimuli are repeatedly presented together until individuals learn to respond to the unfamiliar stimulus in the same way they respond to the familiar stimulus. The behaviourist approach to development is exemplified in the work of John B. Watson, Edward Lee Thorndike, Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner. Behaviourism emerged...
A type of learning that depends on the conse-quences of behaviour; rewards increase the likelihood that a behav-iour will recur, whereas punishment decreases that likelihood.
An early approach to explaining development in terms of maturational timetables, predetermined by genetic inheritance.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the major opposition to the behaviourist school of thought concerning children’s development had come to The maturationists mapped out the develop-mental trajectories of be known as the
In this view of develop-ment, which is derived from Freudian theory, development occurs in discrete stages and is determined largely by biologically based drives shaped by encounters with the environment and through the interac-tion of the personality’s three components: the id, ego and superego. id In Freudian theory, the person’s instinctual driv...
exact views about early experience, the idea that Freud introduced – namely, that events in infancy and childhood have a formative impact on later development – Erikson’s theory of development, which sees remains an important theme in the study of social and emotional development. children developing Psychodynamic theory has also been particularly...
Learning that occurs through observing the behaviour of others. of another person were likely to imitate that behaviour. For example, after a group of nursery school children watched an adult punch a large Bobo doll (an inflated rubber doll that pops back up after being pushed), the children were more likely to attack and play aggressively with the...
Module 4: The Science of Psychology: Tension and Conflict in a Dynamic Discipline Unit 2: Understanding and Using Principles of Memory, Thinking, and Learning Module 5: Memory
selling APA Dictionary of Psychology. The first edition, copy-right 2007, included some 25,000 entries. That corpus was vetted by nearly 100 experts in the field of psychology and labored over for almost a decade by APA Reference staff and associated lexicographers. The first edition re-flected current dimensions of the field as a whole, with en-
Jan 1, 2015 · The aim of this dictionary is to provide sensible and informative definitions of the most important and difficult words that a reader is likely to encounter in books and articles on psychology.
Jun 20, 2011 · Defining Psychology. June 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0058-5_7. In book: A New Unified Theory of Psychology (pp.181-207) Authors: Gregg Henriques. James Madison University. Citations...
Define psychology. Describe the influence that philosophy, biology, and physiology had on the beginnings of psychology as a science. Compare the two early scientific approaches in psychology: structuralism and functionalism. Describe the focus of each of the six contemporary approaches to psychology.
