PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky, Tabula Rasa, B. F. Skinner
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Nothing is in the mind that was not first in the senses : babies are born as a blank slate, mind is constructed through experience and interaction with the environment, descarte - rationalism. Concepts may be gained independently of experience : 1900"s - 1950"s, blank slate psychology - the mind is a tabula rasa and is built from learning from experience, b. f skinner, john watson, ivan pavlov, piaget (father of developmental. Noam chomsky: today, standard social science model (sssm): the mind contains a domain-general learning mechanism that forms associations from experience, empiricists, connectionism (updated version of associanism) **point taken from most developmental psychologists: evolutionary psychology: the mind contains many evolved, reliably developing, and domain-specific learning mechanisms that inject certain concepts and motivations into mental life, nativists, core knowledge theory. Your perspective matters - theory determines what you may observe - einstein. How do genes and environment interact to produce human psychology.
