PSYCH207 Midterm: Modules 1, 2, 3
10 Jan 2016
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Development of cog psych: clean slate nativism, decartes and kant, believe in biological influences, innate, built in, functionalism. Intelligence was like natural selection: empirisism, hume and locke, suggests that we learn from experiences, structuralism. Looked at the conscious mind through introspection: behaviourism. Human factors - engineering presented new problems that needed solutions. During wwii the development of complicated equipment required highly trained personnel to operate them. Both engineers and trainers needed some knowledge of how the mind worked. Psychologists began to see humans as sharing properties with the inanimate objects that engineers designed. Limited-capacity processors of information : linguistic developments: noam chomsky. Began to see the central importance of studying how people acquire, understand, and produce language. Early work showed that behaviourism could not adequately explain language questioned the conditioning explanation. Argued that humans have an innate capacity to acquire language and that its development is not grounded by laws of conditioning.
