Social Learning Theory
Who was the theorist who proposed this theory?
Albert Bandura
In what year did Erik Erikson emigrate to America, to teach at Harvard Medical School
1933
The theory of Cognitive Development was proposed by Jean Piaget because
Piaget believed that children sorted the information they get through their experiences and interactions with others into groups called schemas.
Piaget identified that intellectual growth goes through a process of adaptations.
What stage of cognitive development are you currently in?
Identity vs. Confusion
Formal Operation
What is Social Learning Theory?
Bandura also discovered that learning occurs both through those beliefs and through social modeling.
A person’s environment, cognition, and behavior all interact to determine how that person functions.
Erik Erikson changed his last name because
He wanted to build his own sense of identity and personality. He didn't want to be defined by his parents given name.
Define what is assimilation, and accommodation and equilibrium?
Assimilations- This is when you use previous schema to deal with new information.
Accommodations- This when schema that already exist needs to be changed to deal with new information.
Equilibrium- This is when we try to force ourselves to learn new information when we do not understand a new concept.
What three theories did we learn and who are the theorist?
Theory of Cognitive Development- Jean Piaget
Psychosocial Theory- Erik Erikson
Social Learning Theory- Albert Bandura
People around the child will respond to the behavior it imitates.
Positive: Praise or good rewards
Negative: Punishment or getting in trouble.
What is the last 4 stages of Psychosocial Theory?
Identity vs. Role Confusion
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Ego Integrity vs. Despair
Sensorimotor is
Birth- 2 years old
Piaget believed that in this stage children learned through their 5 senses.
Object permanence is knowing that object still exists even though it is hidden.
What are the 5 areas of cognitive development?
Information processing
Intelligence
Reasoning
Language development
Memory
Why did Bandura conduct the Bobo Doll Experiment?
He wanted to test how television affected children's behavior. Many students ended up injuries due to it being televised.
What is the first 4 stages of psychosocial development?
Trust vs. Mistrust
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
Initiative vs. Guilt
Industry vs. Inferiority
What is concrete operational
Concrete Operational is when children can work things out internally in their head (rather than physically try things out in the real world).
Conservation is the understanding that something stays the same in quantity even though its appearance changes.
When does cognitive development begin and end?
Your cognitive development goes from infancy to adulthood.
Explain the Bobo Doll Experiment
A study in which researchers physically and verbally abused a clown-faced inflatable toy in front of preschool-age children, which led the children to later mimic the behavior of the adults by attacking the doll in the same fashion.
Define Psychosocial Theory
Erikson believed that personality developed in a predetermined order through 8 stages, and to overcome these stages you had to go overcome certain "crisis" in each stage. One of the few theories that focuses on the lifespan development as a whole.
Age 11+ or adolescence and adulthood
During this time, people develop the ability to think about abstract concepts, and logically test hypotheses.
Cognitive development is
Cognitive Development is the building of thought process, which includes remembering, problem solving, and decision making.