PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Folk Psychology, Dialectic, Liberal Arts Education

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2GG3
• Professor: Ayesha Khan

Document Summary

2gg3: learning, measuring and shaping behaviour introduction to learning. A philosophical question rather than psychological: debate about different types of philosophies and how we will study them. Inquiry based learning and method of education: strategies that call for discourse and reflection as tools for developing thinking owe much to socrates and. Plato have to be able to be a reflective thinker and spend time thinking about your experience with learning. Influenced by religious thinkers of the time: revive idea of innate knowledge, science combined with religiosity, human beings have inbuilt concepts he recommended god was an inbuilt concept. Innate knowledge resides in us in concepts concept of god, food, social encounters, people. Psychology-based learning theory: (cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:373)ethod: whate(cid:448)e(cid:396) i a(cid:373) (cid:373)easu(cid:396)i(cid:374)g e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)o(cid:374)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:373)easu(cid:396)e it that sa(cid:373)e (cid:449)a(cid:455) (cid:449)hethe(cid:396) (cid:455)ou(cid:859)(cid:396)e i(cid:374) I(cid:374)fle(cid:272)ted (cid:271)(cid:455) da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374) a(cid:374)d idea that stud(cid:455)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)i(cid:373)al (cid:271)(cid:396)ai(cid:374)s allo(cid:449) us to (cid:373)ake i(cid:374)fe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es of (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s happening in human brain: ex.