PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky, Heredity, Chemical Synapse
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Learning: rationalism vs. empiricism, nature vs nurture, nurture: empiricism(environment); John lock argues we are born clean and all knowledge depends on our exposure to the environment and our senses. Innate (born with it) born with innate knowledge or reasoning abilities that allow us to understand the world around us (plato, kant, chomsky) Learning and expectations: derry gets bad grades on papers and susan gets a. derry said that he will always get bad grades no matter because teacher thinks im dumb. No matter what i do i will always get c and you will always get an a. Derry"s paper (which was susan"s) got a c, susans paper (derry"s paper) got an a conclusion that people expectations about others and their knowledge matter: did an experiment in rosenthal and jacobson 1968. Basic unit of communication in the nervous system. It"s a cell that receives signals from other neurons and responds by either sending the signal on or not.
