PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cartesian Theater, Social Cognition, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Stuart Hammond

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Ask how we learn to do things: crawling, following gaze, language and morality. Cognitive psychology is more restrictive: thoughts and thinking. Di erent types of knowledge that aren"t the same. The theories there are core types of knowledge. Empiricism: knowledge comes from outside, nurture the world impresses on us, explains why some skills vary per person, behaviourism skinner, from john locke. Constructivism: learn about world by acting on it, construct our own understanding of the world. Explains how things come together from biology and the environment. Types of knowledge change the way we teach things. Ex: teaching piano: nativist mentoring the traits that exist from within, empiricism learn based on only certain types of musicians, constructivism show them and have them practice. Have to contract the knowledge for themselves. Asked people how a cat would walk: they gave di erent answers x,z or n pattern. These are mental representations of actions: they are simpli ed and abstract.