PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Golden Ratio, Psychology Today
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Had strict rules around the time, pythagoreans are more or less like a cult. Believed everything could be modelled mathematically (explained by relationships between numbers) Did not want to think that things happened randomly. Example: 2gpa + 3time studied + 0. 5iq = overall student grade: modelling relationships using numbers; anything was modelled mathematically. Ideal versions of things - things that don"t exist in the material world, but are ideas. Exist independent of experience (experience - things that you can appreciate with senses) Distinction between experience & ideas: what we experience always differs because we experience through our senses. Relates to operational definitions - how you measure something when doing research (e. g. intelligence, beauty) The ideal form cannot be accessed through the senses, but only through the mind (concept of intelligence is accessed through the mind, but iq is the way we measure it)
