Lecture 1- Intro to Learning Flashcards
What is learning?
Experience, Learning, Change in behaviour
Truth and Knowledge to be found within us
a) Rationalism
b) Empiricism
a) Rationalism
Truth and Knowledge is to be found outside of ourselves by using our senses
a) Rationalism
b) Empiricism
b) Empircism
-rationalist
-knowledge and truth discovered by self-reflection
Plato
-empiricist
-sense to look for truth and knowledge in the world outside of him
Aristotle
-dialectic method of discovering truth
-through conversations with fellow citizens
Socrates
Roman Catholic Church
-expectation of god
-rote memorization and recitation
-university
-access to knowledge changed, needed to be apart of an organization
Renaissance
-needed to have an education that was well rounded (art, math, history, physics)
-comprenhsive view of the world
Copernicus
Scientist-that questioned what if the earth is the centre of the universe
Question everything
-encouraged us to ask questions bc things have the capacity to change
Martin Luther
Question everything
-relgious questioned teachings of the church
“The only habit which the child should be allowed to form is to contract no habit whatsoever”
a) Immanuel Kant
b) Vygotsky
c) John Locke
d) Copernicus
c) John Locke
Revived the Platonic Concept of Innate Knowledge
a) John Locke
b) Rene Descartes
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Martin Luther
b) rene Descartes
-internal working of the body
-moved our attention to inside the body
REFLEX- change in envirnment and internally something happens to produce an output
who is Descartes
rene Descartes
-internal working of the body
-moved our attention to inside the body
REFLEX- change in envirnment and internally something happens to produce an output
“Let us supposed the mind to be, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas”
a) Thorndike
b) Descarte
c) Locke
d) Plato
c) Locke
Tabula Rasa
John Locke
-blank slate: our experiences define who we become