PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wax Tablet, B. F. Skinner, Tabula Rasa
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Plato: memory storage is like writing on a wax tablet, mind is an aviary where birds are flying, and memory is catching a bird, sometimes you catch, sometimes only nearby bird. Two distinct ideas or experiences that join because they occur to be presented at the same time: environment plays a role in determining one"s intellect and abilities. Natvism: plato, descartes, kant, nativism: role of native ability in learning and acquisition of abilities, differences in original, biological endowment, cognitive functions built in and hardwired like short term memory, qualim: essence of the mind. Structuralism: wundt, titchener, baldwin, wundt: first institute for research in experimental psychology want to discover, wundt wanted to find the mental elements to describe complex mental science of the mind: laws and principles of our conscious. James baldwin: first psychological laboratory in canada phenomena principles of physiological psychology: mental development in children, influence on piaget.
