PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Empiricism, Information Processing
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Child development: studies gradual evolution of child"s cognitive and social capacities, describe changes in child"s observed behaviours uncover processes and strategies that underlie these changes. Nativist emphasizes role of nature (innate factors) on development. Infants possess extensive innate knowledge about the world: plato. Experience isn"t the source of knowledge senses are fallible (unreliable) Cave allegory senses cannot provide us with accurate knowledge. Children have innate knowledge about the world; experience triggers the pre-existing knowledge: jaques rousseau. Enter the world with extensive, innate knowledge. Infants possess a sense of justice and morality; unfolds over the course of development. Empiricist emphasizes role of nurture (environmental factors) on development. Infants depend on experience to gain knowledge of world: aristotle. Human knowledge was based in perceptual experience. Children don"t possess innate, extensive knowledge blank slate. Acquire knowledge piece by piece, information provided by senses: john locke. Human knowledge based in perceptual experience blank slate.
