PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Social Desirability Bias, Tabula Rasa, Unconscious Mind
1 Aug 2013
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519 836 7672 or companion@alzheimer. guelph. org (2-3 hours a week) No need to be in lab: learning how mind works using their mind alone, no extra tools. British empiricism (nurture: john locke, bias towards nurture (role of experience in how minds become how they are) Believe minds start out as blank slates . Don"t have anything in your mind, mind is underdeveloped. Through experience and education your mind becomes what it is now. Continental nativism (nature: spinoza, biased towards nature, born with certain things (how can we end up in the same place if we all have different experiences growing up) American pragmatism: james (principles of psychology) late 19th early 20th century. First to described what he did as psychology. Observations were so mature, foresaw what we have now found systematically about the mind and using a different set of tools.
