PSYB30H3 Lecture 3: week 3 gender

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11 Apr 2011
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Week 3 gender, society, and culture: evolutionary approaches to personality adopt a nativist approach. It emphasizes all of the things we bring into the world. It emphasizes all of the architecture that is preestablished b4 we are born into the world. These approaches adapt an empiricist viewpoint emphasizes all that we do not bring into the world. There is a growing disenchantment with the psychoanalyst reliance on all of these unobservable processes, unconscious mechanisms none of which can be reliably discerned or experimentally investigated. There is disapproval with the psychoanalyst constant reference with these hidden unconscious processes. The processes are very limited in their ability to generate predictions about future behaviors. Emphasis on its parsimony - the very small number of terms they need to introduce in order to explain a wide range of behavior. www. notesolution. com. 1: john watson there are stimuli in the world that seem to reflexively produce responses in living things.