PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, John Stuart Mill, Depth Perception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Mind at birth a balk slate (tabula rasa) All knowledge is empirically derive- comes from sensory experience. Two kinds of experiences: sensation, reflections. Operations of the mind- perception, thinking, doubting, reasoning knowing. Two ideas (through reflection or sensation: simple ideas can combine to make complex ideas, complex ideas- can be broken down into simple ideas. Theory of association: through association, knowledge results from linking simple ideas to form complex ideas, association = learning. Hand that was in cold water when you put in the. Luke warm you will perceive it as hotter than it is (primary- temperature, secondary- warmth to you) All knowledge- a function of the experience or perceiving person. Subjective idealism, mentalism- experience does not mirror external reality. Goal- to create a science of human nature. 2 kinds of mental contents impression ideas. Both mental contents may be simple or complex.