PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Twin, Tabula Rasa, Sigmund Freud
7 May 2012
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Scientific study of changes or continuities in an organism b/w initial conception and aging. Plato- nativist: where does human knowledge come from. Argued that our perceptual knowledge is fallible, it doesn"t come experience. Its innate experience doesn"t give us knowledge we have, its innateness and different incidents that trigger that knowledge. John locke: empiricist: human knowledge is based on perceptual exp. Experience moulds the child into a unique individual. John watson tabular rasa- blank slate- mind of children (nativist) Problems were that you have a small sample size and your observation is biased. G stanley hall- founder of develop psych. inspired by darwin, followed normative approach. What stages a child goes through when it comes to education. Believed that children, go according to maturational plan, which unfolds automatically, this is more nativist. John watson-founded behaviourism movement, empiricist approach, experimental approach. Very convinced that experience entirely shapes the human being. Emphasized imp of punishment and reward in child rearing.
