DEVPSY - theorists

Argues that older adults often show less capacity for learning new things than younger adults do.

• Jean Piaget

• Paul Baltes

• Albert Bandura

• Urie Bronfenbrenner

Piaget

• Operant conditioning

• Social cognitive theory

• Cognitive development theory

Operant conditioning, rewards and punishments

• Buss

• Skinner

• Pavlov

• Bronfenbenner

Attachment to caregiver

• Piaget

• Gewitz

• Bowlby

• Bronfenbenner

Process imprinting - rapid innate attachment to the first moving object seen

• Piaget

• Bronfenbenner

• Lorentz

• Bandura

Best way to understand how children learn is to observe them while they are learning, emphasized the microgenetic method.

• Lorentz

• Buss

• Siegler

• Bandura

Evolution has contributed to our physical features, it also pervasively influences our psychological makeup

• Baltes

• Bandura

• Darwin

Evolutionary psychology theory that Bandura rejects

• one sided evolutionism

• natural selection

• linkage analysis

Sticky mittens experiment, perceptual motor coupling

• Bandura

• Needham

• Sullivan

• Vygotsky

Young infants interpret the world as having predictable occurrences. Core knowledge approach.

• Needham

• Spelke

• Collier

• Meltzoff