wk 2 dev

Question 1

(+) of naturalistic observation of children

Answer 1

good ecological validity

Question 2

2(-) of naturalistic observation of children

Answer 2

hard to identify causal relationships

painstaking to administer, may not occour often

Question 3

(+) of interviews of children

Answer 3

-allows full focus on beh pattern
-follow up qs

Question 4

(-) of interviews of children

Answer 4

(-)hard to determine cause
(-)can be difficult to generalise

Question 5

what is a microgenetic design of examining development

Answer 5

children observed intensively over a relatively short period of time while a change is occouring

Question 5

Eval experiments of children

Answer 5

+ isolate variables
+control is easy

-lack eco valid
-not always possible due to ethics

Question 6

what is habituation and dishabituation

Answer 6

a decrease in responsiveness to a repeated stimulation reveals that learning has occourred

dishabituation = now interested in new stimulus as previous stimulus has been learned

Question 7

Perceptual learning

Answer 7

experience-dependent enhancement of our ability to make sense of what we see, hear, feel, taste or smell

Question 8

Differentiation

Answer 8

Differentiation is the extraction from the constantly
changing stimulation in the environment of those
elements that are invariant or stable (Gibson, 1988)

Question 9

affordances

Answer 9

the
possibilities for action offered by objects and
situations (Gibson, 1988)

Question 9

Statistical learning

Answer 9

Involves picking up information from the
environment, forming associations among stimuli
that occur in a statistically predictable pattern

Question 10

Extinction in conditioning

Answer 10

means behaviour is neither reliably rewarded or penalised
(i.e., nothing happens)