PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Feral Child, Depth Perception
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Nature vs nurture is the major theme of today. The first developmental study was conducted in ancient egypt. The pharaoh believed that his society was the first human civilization. He wanted to know if egyptian was the original language. He found a shepherd, and made him raise a kid without language. The kid"s first word was bekos, which is phrygian, an earlier civilization. Exp: took a litter of kittens, but raised them in the dark. Result: they did not develop depth perception, light is needed. Exp: took a litter of kittens, put them in a kitten carousel so they couldn"t move. We need both light and visual experience to develop depth perception. The poverty of the stimulus argument: there is not enough information in the world where we can learn everything we do. Plato : the meno: socrates and the boy : first recorded dev psych experiment , plato asked the slave boy math.
