PSYC 2600H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Petri Dish, Endorphins, Fluoxetine
4 Apr 2016
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Nature relects that we are afected by biology: we are hard wired and programmed, determinist, plato = naivist. Nurture is afected by the environment: we are acquired, aristotle = empiricist. Only 75% likely if one twin has it, not the other. Descartes was a naivist that our knowledge does not depend on experience: some knowledge is innate, ex. ideas of god, concept of perfecion. Locke believed that knowledge is experience: tabula rasa, coniguity close in ime/space. Darwin introduces natural selecion: darwinism relies on adaptaion, the ability to reproduce is fundamental for natural selecion. Learning is a trait (to darwin) that allows you to adapt: learning is an adapive trait and learning is there for biological. Interacion between nature and nurture with a touch of evoluion. We are biologically prepared: preparedness has criical periods, there is a window for lexibility for evoluion. At one ime, language was quesioned on either side of the dichotomy: ex.
