PSY 731 Chapter 13: Nature vs Nurture History & Theory of Psychology PSY 731 Ryerson University

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 731
• Professor: Becky Choma

Document Summary

Nature vs nurture: the history of raising healthy children. Those with suf cient intelligence can use formal reasoning to discover the truth. Sensory information and the environment is uctuating and distracting. It can confuse reality with imagination and is subjective. Plato"s theory of forms describes the difference between the perfect, objective archetype of an object vs the subjective, real world object that plato posits is merely mimicking the form. impact. in uence. Learning comes from a mix of both nature and nurture, with nurture having more of an. We are born a blank slate, or tabula rasa, with no innate knowledge. Individual capacity is important, but outside forces and the environment can have a profound. Children learn through stem tutelage, academic and moral discipline and adherence to ethics. Children learn best while under the guidance of a master. Conceptualized phrenology which is the theory that personality can be inferred by the shape.