PSYC 1115 Lecture Notes - Hermann Ebbinghaus, Erasmus Darwin, Tabula Rasa
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Learning: the process by which behavioral changes result from experience. Memory: the record of our past experiences acquired through learning. Place: where we store all our experiences, where we keep our record. Encoding (getting it in)/storage (keeping it)/retrieval (getting it out) Memory is really important to who we are as individuals. Memory is a rubric, a heading for something really vast and complex, isn"t just one thing. Classical conditioning = when things are close enough in time and fate, a link will be created. Nativist, rationalist (believed knowledge is acquired through logic and reasoning) Suggested that the body supplies the mind ideas through the senses. Tabula rasa (everything is acquired through our experience) Memory of one event can trigger memory of another event (how connections are formed) Component of evolution (idea that feces change over time). People who believed evolution did not have a specific mechanism that could explain how evolution worked.
