PSY 3301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tabula Rasa, Empiricism

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3301
• Professor: Lalain Williams

Document Summary

History of infancy infancy= birth to the emergence of language or 1 year of age. 3 reasons for studying infancy: philosophical and scientific questions, parental investments-historical issues (health risk; economies of family, socialization) Developmental course: when they emerge and how they change with age. Status: how far along in development a structure or function is. Function: what use a structure or ability provide and why we might be designed to behave in such a manner or develop the particular structure or ability. Epistemology: understanding where knowledge comes from and how it changes. Philosopher discussing roles of heredity and experience. Empiricists: believe there is no knowledge at birth and knowledge comes thrugh the senses and mental development reflect learned associations. John locke-said knowledge comes through the sense. James- father of american psychology-wrote principles of psych volume 1 and 2. Said infant"s experience help them organize and create mental order.