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, - First words being spoken, and children ended up speaking from a particular
dialect which was then termed the “original language” - Controlled-Rearing
- Done with animals, found that both visual and motor experiences are necessary
- Genie
- No social interactions and experiences severe cases of abuse, and even when she
was rehabilitated and was taught English she already preceded the pivotal stage of
learning to speak. Therefore she never learned how to speak properly
Problem of Knowledge
(PHILOSOPHY) - Existentialist
(Nature) - Plato
- Believes we inherently know things
- Rene Descartes
- David Hume
- Realist (Nurture) - Aristotle
- We think we know things but we don’t
- Knowledge comes from experience - John Locke
- Emphasized nurture and believed the mind was a blank slate - Questions:
when does learning begin?
- Believes that learning comes from experience - Empiracist
- David Hume
- #IHateKids
- Empirical Research began in the 1800s and Early 1900s
- Started because of child labor laws - Charles Darwin
- Began some of the very first empirical studies, and inspired the idea that studying
children provides insight into studying the human species
- Sigman Freud
- Emphasized early development, but never really studied kids
- Behavior is motivated by innate, unconscious desires which all have universal
stages
- Behaviorism
- BF Skinner and John Watson
- Studied only observable things.
- No mental phenomena, to study the mind we don’t talk about the mind
- Ivan Pavlov
- Classical Conditioning - Ivan Pavlov
- Pairing stimuli with a reaction until the stimuli ALWAYS causes the response
- Dog treats and a bell - Operant Conditioning - BF Skinner
- Self initiated actions occurs when reinforced by rewarding consequences - Use
positive reinforcement to shape behavior
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