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| Key People/Theorists | Main Ideas | Strengths | Weaknesses | |
| Cognitive Perspective | Lev Vygotsky (1896-1980) Albert Bandura(1960s) | Lev Vygotsky: Emphases people learn through their culture and language and develop a stop in the environment. Albert Bandura: point out that we learn social learning skills by observing and imitating other’s behavior. Similarities: Both theorists state that people learn from an immediate relative and their society Differences: Lev believe one learns through culture while Bandura says individual learn through watching. | • Involves many practical applications to aid in determine disorders like autism. • Explain why kids follow the steps of their parents. | • It does not allow us to observe the brain; instead, a machine will enable us to retrieve the information. • It overlooks other behavioral factors like the emotion that may impact our cognition. |
| Behavioral Perspective | John B. Watson (1878–1958) B. F. Skinner (1904–1990) | Watson: indicate that the environment has much impact on our behavior. Skinner: pursue the fact that the effect of an action/behavior relies on the consequence that follows. Similarities: Both emphasize the factors that lead to a person’s | • Be more observant in studying someone’s behaviors are affirmative thereby without using machines. • Behaviors learned through experience; hence | • This process takes much time to understand human behavior hence a one- dimensional approach. • It does not account for |
| behavior Differences: Watson’s influence on behavior is pointed to the environment, while Skinner’s study said a person behavior is determined by the consequence that follows | looking at those factors to determine why. | other types of learning factors that serve as reinforcers or punishers. |
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