Skinner
believed that the best way to understand behaviour is to look at the causes of an action and its consequences, he called this approach 'operant conditioning'
Behaviour which is reinforced tends to be repeated, behaviour which is not renforced tends to die out or be extingushed.
Skinner coined the term 'operant conditioning' - which means roughly changing of behaviour, by the use of reinforcment which is given after the desired response.
Neutral operants
Environment has no effect on behaviour (reinforcers determine behaviour (positive or negative)
Innateness Theory
Theory of language acquistion - some knowledgee exsists at birth
An age by which this learning must be accomplished is known as the critical period hypothesis.
Ment ability at birth and as you grow older gets easier to learn and pick up things quicker
Simple understanding
Cognition Theory
First psychologist to make a systematic
He researched a theory of cognitive child, giving a detailed observational study of cognition in children looking at different cognitive ability.
Piaget believes children are born with basic mental structure. Where knowledge and learning is based.
Social and cultural theoy
Society making individual development
People + Culture = development
Carers, parents and friends play a big part in culture and devlopment
proximal development = the distance between the actual development level as determined by independent problem solving
