LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tabula Rasa, Heritability, Thought Experiment

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Hendrikus Van Der Hulst

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The standard social science model- the theory that humans start with a blank slate and everything can be attributed to learning instead of nature. Avoid smelly food: sex and partners. In general yes but not with family members. Interest in specific other or same sex/gender. Compete with rivals: safety and defense. Fear, anger, and aggression: social grouping. Based on substantial innate basis, but in need of input based on experience (ex. General cognitive capacities: universality, separate breakdown, neural architecture, adaptive: sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. Wilson, world"s leading expert on the study of ants. Based on his work on the social/group behavior of insects which he. Based on his work on the social/group behavior of insects which he claimed to be solely due to social instincts, wilson proposed that social behavior of other animal species, including humans, is also rooted in social instincts.