PSYC 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Intellectual, Contiguity, Artificial Neural Network
27 Nov 2020
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Chapter 1 - the psychology of learning and memory: introduction. Learning: the process by which changes in behavior arise as the result of experience interacting with the world. Memory: the record of our past experiences, acquired through learning (storage of information [unconscious] that may be retrieved when needed [conscious]) Which of your skills are learned vs. innate. Introduction: from philosophy and natural history to psychology. How are complex ideas and memories formed: mind, learning, and memory have been topics of intense fascination for millennia, early approaches were primarily philosophical rather than scienti c, but many key questions of the eld were identi ed. Nativist: humans are shaped primarily by their biological inheritance (nature): fixed at birth; born great (or not) Empiricist: humans are shaped primarily by their experience (nurture): endless possibilities with the right experiences. Plato: we are born with innate di erences in skill and talent, and suggested sorting by quality soon after birth.
