PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Contiguity, Causal Structure, Latent Inhibition
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John lock emphasized empiricism and tabula rasa ( black slate : completely bottom up from experience rather than top down from concepts and expectations. Plato believed you were born knowing everything you needed to know and will know in your life. Aristotle: all you need to be born with is innate knowledge to use information to create knowledge. Expectations and beliefs drive what you are seeing and experiencing top. Down experience. (eg: the the hand : indication that learning is an interaction of bottom up and top down processing. Locke"s theory of learning is probably not true: bottom up learning: events occur to an organism that starts out (innately) with the four principles of association. *behaviouralists focused on such concepts: behaviouralist conditioning: behaviouralists took the principle of association and intergraded it with the pavlov and thorndike"s discoveries in order to explain all learning (simple terms)
