PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hard Wired, Tabula Rasa, Visual Impairment
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It"s not nature vs nurture; it"s nature and nurture. Assignment: answer a broad q in 1-3 pages, apa format. Hard cuz you have to efecively communicate your knowledge concisely and in a sophisicated manner. If you just use the textbook/lec material, you will just pass. If you want to do well, you need to do research and go ind more informaion. Wants a hard copy at the beginning of the class. Ch 9: the book doesn"t go into details about moral d but the lec will. Video: will talk about a lot of things we will come back to. John lock = a baby is a blank slate. Found a child who had no experience of human nurturing only nature. Died at 40 could never learn how to speak. William james: an infant = a totally helpless organism. Babies are very confused due to a lot of dif sensaions they don"t understand.
