Psychology Ch 4 Lecture Notes

Front 1

environmentalism

Back 1

person arrives "blank slate"

Front 2

predeterminism

Back 2

preprogrammed, locates development inside the person (the child is developing according to nature's plan)
*piaget

Front 3

interactionism

Back 3

interacting person and environment (child is the apprentice)
*vygotsky

Front 4

mechanistic

Back 4

machine is the explanatory metaphor (every action has an equal and opposite reaction)

Front 5

rationalistic

Back 5

focuses on the reasons and thinking behind behavior (humans are rational thinking creatures)
*piaget and gibson

Front 6

contextualist

Back 6

focuses on the development on how it occurs on context (co-constructive reality between the person and setting)
*vygotsky

Front 7

interpsychological then intrapsychological

Back 7

any higher level psychological functionary occurs twice or on two planes (inter- intra-)
*vygotsky

Front 8

zone of proximal development

Back 8

the distance where someone can perform independently and where they can perform when they have help from an experienced other

Front 9

gibson's perceptual development theory

Back 9

the child is seen as an active perceiver

Front 10

issue of affordance

Back 10

objects in your environment provide opportunities of certain behaviors and limits for other behaviors