Amy Lentz
Psych 4007-62634
Unit Two Objectives Assignment
Concepts
innate ideas
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Innate ideas are ideas about things that are not concrete, such as God.
tabula rasa
- Tabula rasa is what John Locke believed humans were born with in regards to
knowledge.
Tabula rasa means blank slate.
mind-body problem
- Mind-body problem describes the question if there is a distinction
between the physical body and the mind.
Terms
Determinism
- Determinism is the idea that we know what will happen in the future based on
how things happened in the past.
Using the clock metaphor, we understand that a clock one it
hits 12 will not proceed to 13 but starts over again at 1.
We know this because of determinism.
Empiricism
- Empiricism is the desire for knowledge through observation and experimentation.
Ideas that were handed down from past generations were no longer believed to be correct.
Positivism
- Positivism is only recognizing objective facts and natural phenomena.
These are
known facts that are not disputed.
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