PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Tabula Rasa, Dual Pair
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Misleading of the representations of how learning occurs. How much ideas, that are thought to be settled, are still debatable. = can just be something happening to something (would mean everything has an experience) Problem with blank slate - the paradox of cannot have a blank slate because you have no basis to judge if you have found the information your are seeking. John loche an empiricist (all knowledge created by experience) > bottom up (up from experience) tabula rasa mind is a blank stale with no information, knowledge or abilities > experience writes on blank slate all knowledge from sense experience. Must know what to pay attention to and what to look at in order to learn. Roche argued that (4 princles of association) what you have innate are principles that give you the ability to organize information into knowledge. Roche thoughts top down" was principles of association. Most of his psychology turns out to be wrong.
