1.2.1 Flashcards
Plato
Assumed that character and intelligence are largely inherited and that certain ideas are also inborn
Aristotle
There is nothing in the mind that does not first come in from the external world through the senses
Descartes
Some ideas are innate
Natural selection
Nature selects The traits that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment
Depression can be….
Both a brain disorder and a thought disorder
Nature-nurture issue
The long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s development of psychological traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture