DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 63: Three Steps, Scriptio Continua, Metalworking
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Task 1 history and foundations of psychology. How did they influence and change the society? (language, number, fire etc. : reasoning of the greeks, development of the way of reasoning (plato, socrates etc. ) Major figures and their way of reasoning. The introduction of written records represents one of the most important moments in the development of science. The preliterate culture preliterate civilization - civilization before writing was invented according to lindberg (1992) there are three important characteristics of knowledge in these kinds of cultures. Their knowledge is confined to know-how knowledge, without theoretical understanding of underlying principles. They know how to do things (obtain shelter, start fires, make tools, hunt, fish, gather fruit and vegetables) but they do not understand how things work. Knowledge of history of tribe is limited to two generations and function of oral tradition is transmission of practical skills: existence of collection of myths and stories about beginning of universe, life and natural phenomena.
