How Does What We Know Get Into Our Heads? Flashcards
1
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What does what we know depend on?
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Action, History
2
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What types of history are there?
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Developmental, Cultural, Evolutionary
3
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What did Rene Descartes theorize?
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We are born with a basic thought to understand the world. (The Epistemological tradition) Doctrine of innate ideas, Primacy of mind and thought
4
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What did John Locke theorize?
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Mind waits for experience to write on it, no pre-existing knowledge, understand world through senses. (Empiricism: have to acquire data)
5
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What did Charles Darwin theorize?
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Natural selection and human instincts, animals evolved because of instincts
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What did Jean Piaget theorize?
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Thought is a biological adaptation, knowledge is constructed through action and builds on itself, how we get from child -> adult thinking
