PSYC 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Blank Slate, Tabula Rasa, Noble Savage
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Our perspective on human nature changes over time, and as a consequence, education/policies/politics change too. Thinking: how others think is driven by how you think. Learning and education: using more computer-based learning (learning to read. Policies on economics: based on what motivates people to spend money. Political systems and philosophies: view individual as mindless beings that have to be controlled, masses are not smart enough to take care of themselves (police state stage) Can be inscribed at will by society or ourselves. Through experiences/environment, that the structure of the mind gets sorted out. In terms of memory for that experience: nobody"s memory is veridical (exact match to the actual event that they experienced, you incorporate the telling of the story into your memory as if you remember the event. Infantile amnesia cant remember things before age 3. Against innate theories and god: church have persuades on how society is done, royalties claimed they were innately disposed with authority by god.
