LING 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edward Thorndike, Empiricism, Behavioural Genetics
13 May 2017
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Step 7: try to answer the open questions: Use the weaknesses/limitations of your study to guide further research studies. Get back to the beginning when you get to the end of the process. Always more questions that need subsequent research so you start back at the beginning again. The evolutionary basis of thinking and doing or the influence on genes on thought and. Two possibilities: my parents" genes made me like that (the nature or nativist approach, my surroundings made me like that (nurture or empiricist approach) Nurture: what is the role of out experience turning us into who we are. In the actual race of life, the chief determining factor is heredity - edward thorndike (one of the earliest linguists) Everything we become is determined by experiences. John b. watson (behaviorist) believed in nurture. Emphasis on how nature makes us similar and different:
