PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tabula Rasa, Homo Sapiens, Sedentary Lifestyle
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Species: animals that tend to mate and produce fertile offspring. Human history had three distinct phases: cognitive revolution, drastic increase in brain size: brain is 2. 5% of body weight but consumes 25% of body resting energy. We do not know what drove this dramatic brain development. Humans followed their food around, camped around protective sites and waterholes. Nativism: knowledge of the world is mostly innate and determines certain abilities (descartes was a nativist). This view is associated with the idea that nature determines behaviour. Empiricism: at birth mind is tabula rasa, nothing in terms of behaviour and knowledge is inherited, all is learned. (locke was empiricist) this view is associated with the idea that nurture determines behaviour. Interactionism: certain basic abilities and knowledge is innate but can be influenced by experience which can change what innate behaviours are expressed, which influences what will be experienced etc. This view is supported strongly by the available evidence.
