PSYC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Depth Perception, Tabula Rasa, Prenatal Development
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Study development to help raise children, determine social policies, provide adequate child health care, understand cognition, and understand human nature. Philosopher beliefs: greeks, aristotle: nurture believer; child-rearing should adjust to needs of the child, plato: innate knowledge; strict discipline is important for everyone, enlightenment period, locke: mind is a blank state; experiences are what bring knowledge. Empirical research: through social reforms and darwin: evolution by natural selection is important to understanding development, observed children systematically and hypothesized reasons for behavior observed. Individual differences: genes, environment, treatment, reactions to treatment, etc. Perception: sensation: using sensory receptors to gain information, perception: how we understand what our senses show us (what our brain does) Instinct blindness: a feeling that something is automatic and effortless masks mental complexity. Levels of perception: low-level: foundational, sensory input (color, brightness, mid-level: pattern, depth, objects, high-level: recognition, categorization, intermodal correspondence.
