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Perceptual Motor Exploration Is Essential for Increasing Knowledge About, and Control

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Perceptual motor exploration is essential for increasing knowledge about, and control over, an infant's environment. Discuss studies of the development of reaching and grasping skills as they relate to an infant's increased knowledge of, and greater control over, his environment.


Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a pause, without any additional conditioning.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the occurrence of desired behaviors.

B. F. Skinner

An influential American psychologist known for his work in behaviorism and the development of the theory of operant conditioning.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond only to the actual stimuli associated with a conditioned response.

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