PSYC 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa, Human Nature, Evolutionary Psychology
1 Dec 2016
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A-not-b (piagetian test: take an older infant, present something (toy) to them and hide it somewhere and they find it where you hid it. If you hide the toy again in another location, the infant tries to find it at the first place: used to measure the level of autism. Purpose of project: have access to very young children (2-3 children, around 1 year old, a bit older, hypothesis, method, testing, graph the data (think about how to present the data) Individually: write 2 pages summary of your project/finding, the issue of a not b, the hypothesis, this is what we did, this is what we found. There brain is prewired to be bad--non blank slate perspective. Level of testosteron in pirson inmates is higher than the general public. Testosterone can also be influenced by enviornment: political polocies. Can be inscribed at will by societ or ourselves.
