01:830:305 Lecture 4: cognition lecture 4 notes

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:305
• Professor: Professor Feldman

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Lecture 4: nurture: lock: the world is how we get the adult brain; based on your experience- empiricism: means information from outside world. It is based on experience blank slate/ tabula. Rasa: associationism: among sensory impressions/ all knowledge comes from experience, behaviorism, nature: descartes and kant: rationalism: based on reason/ innate knowledge, nativism: innate (born) knowledge, cognitivism: instead of looking at behaviors lets look at thought. B. f skinner stimuli: we want psychology to be scientific. Skinner did not believe in computers at all but very similar to turing mating. All learning is conditioned responses to stimuli. Empiricism/ associationism (-> behaviorism: all knowledge comes from experience, there is only one principle of learning: the formation of associations among sensory inputs. This principle explains all learning and all species and all people and all situations: pigeons pecking rats in maze humans talking, but what about .