CLD 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sigmund Freud, Tabula Rasa, Empirical Evidence
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Development refers to systematic continuities and changes in the individual that occur between conception and death. Systematic: changes are orderly, patterned, and relatively enduring. Temporary mood swings and other transitory changes in our appearances, thoughts, and behaviours are therefore excluded. We are also interested in continuities in development, or ways in which we remain the same or continue to reflect our past. Philosophical background: our specific theories are linked to general world views, john locke (1632-1704, david hume (1711-1776, the mind as a blank slate (not entirely correct, plato (427-347 bce) We are born with certain inborn ideas: immanuel kant (1724-1804) Compromise between the empiricists and the rationalists: sense experience is the ultimate source of all our concepts and. Rationalism: we understand the world through experience, we cannot trust our senses, there are significant ways in which our concepts and knowledge are gained independently of sense experience. Big question #2: best way to describe development.