PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Konrad Lorenz, Tabula Rasa, Chromosome Abnormality
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Nature and nurture-great debate: nature is what (cid:455)ou"re (cid:271)or(cid:374) with, e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e-independent change. Maturational timetables, like growing teeth and learning to walk. Hormonal changes, like menstruation and bird-song acquisition. Rousseau supports in 18th century-children are noble savages: nurture is everything that happens to you, experience-dependent change. Native language, child abuse/neglect, nutrition, prenatal toxins. Conditioned responses, playing the piano, your mothers voice. Effects of experience like food preferences and prejudice development. Lock in the 17th century supports empiricism-believing in children as tabula rasa (blank slates) Watson and other behaviorists support in 20th century: problem is, most things are both nature and nurture. Our job is to disentangle the interactions: examples of nature-nurture interaction separations. Language-(cid:374)aturall(cid:455) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s speak a(cid:374)d pets do(cid:374)"t, (cid:374)urture (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s that your language acquisition is culture-specific. Food aversions-conditioned response (eat, feel sick, avoid in future) But-nature means that you see species-specific effects with rats using increased taste and smell and quail using increased sight.
