Theories Of Development

Question 1

3 stages of attachment

Answer 1

Pre attachment, attachment in the making, clear cut attachment

Question 2

Pre attachment

Answer 2

Birth to 6 weeks behaviour designed to attract attention

Question 3

Attachment in the making

Answer 3

6 weeks to 6 months discriminates between known and unknown

Question 4

Clear cut attachment

Answer 4

6 months to 18 months person permenance established

Question 5

S-R Psych

Answer 5

Behaviour is a response to stimuli eg classical conditioning

Question 6

Instrumental conditioning

Answer 6

We learn through trial and error

Question 7

Latent learning rats

Answer 7

Maze learning number of errors made before reaching the food box reduces most quickly when there is food and rat is hungry

Question 8

Cognitive revolution

Answer 8

1950s more attention was paid to internal cognitive processes

Question 9

Nativism

Answer 9

Such behaviours cannot be learned at all but must be result of innate knowledge

Question 10

Violation of expectation

Answer 10

Presents infants with 2 scenarios possible and impossible. Infants look longer at impossible events.

Question 11

Constructivism

Answer 11

Rejects S-R psych it’s view is a person develops consisting of simple learning mechanisms. Child actively constructs a model of world: change of internal states, shared experience

Question 12

Piaget stages of cognitive development

Answer 12

Assimilation+accommodation

Question 13

Vygotsky and social constructivism

Answer 13

Language is basis of thought MKO

Question 14

ZPD

Answer 14

MKO helps child cross ZPD