PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Puzzle Video Game, Almost Surely, Anthropocentrism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Tanya Broesch

Document Summary

Acquiring knowledge through experience and how to get needs met. Most of our knowledge about physical world is what we are born with (evolutionary perspective(innate) like rutherfords perspective) According to rutherford, traits are innate and born with the baby. Sound of encouragement and discouragement, the sounds are universally recognized a threatening or safe situation. --> tone of voice(infant directed speech: slower, exaggerated pitch) What does the baby need to know about the physical world. Core knowledge is innate and we are born with it. Face/auditory processing, all these are domain specific: different capacities for different abilites. For example, face recognition is one domain and auditory is another domain specific module. Domain general mechanisms are what is constructed with o o o o o o. Things in our evolutionary history that help us survive. Core knowledge theorisits believe most of our knowledge is shaped by.