The main causal factor in development are genes and development is characterised by biological maturation.
Maturationists
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Environment is the main causal factor in development, which is characterised by environmental shaping/
Behaviourists
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Mind is a collection of special-purpose mechanisms shaped by evolution to perform a specific function, such as a Swiss Army knife.
Maturationists /nativists
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Mind has one general-purpose system for learning everything. We learn the same things because we have similar environments (objects fall). Individuals do the hard work through learning.
Empiricists/ behaviourists
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Stimulus response learning, salivating dogs
Pavlov
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Operant conditioning, electrified rats
Skinner
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Development under the control of biological systems with a genetic blueprint, so development occurs in a fixed order.
Gesell
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'With any healthy infants I can bring them up to be whatever specialist I decide'- Little Albert
Watson
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Insight learning: personal interactions with the environment aid problem-solving. Stepwise changes showing problem solving using cognitive representations.
Köhler
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Born with basic mental structure, construct mental model of world by active exploration and interaction, building schemas, 4 Universal stages of development
Constructivism
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Core knowledge- humans have 4 innate special-purpose systems of core knowledge. Based on looking time studies.
Spelke
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The word to describe the theory from Waddington (1905-1975). A landscape that shows differences in development are more extreme when they happen earlier on in development.
Epigenetic
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During development cortical regions become specialised as a result of interaction and competition with different regions
Interactive specialisation
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Set of genes responsible for a certain trait. e.g. eye colour
Genotype
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The physical expression of a gene. e.g. eye colour
Phenotype
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Card 2
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Environment is the main causal factor in development, which is characterised by environmental shaping/
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Behaviourists
Card 3
Front
Mind is a collection of special-purpose mechanisms shaped by evolution to perform a specific function, such as a Swiss Army knife.
Back
Card 4
Front
Mind has one general-purpose system for learning everything. We learn the same things because we have similar environments (objects fall). Individuals do the hard work through learning.
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