Psych Overview: U1 CH2 Flashcards
What is the empiricist point of view on the nature of human knowledge
the result of concrete sensory experience.
Locke’s “great book”?
Essay concerning Human Understanding
__________ assumed a human mind that operates basically according to this inductive model, developing all of its knowledge from observations of things in the external world.
Locke
Be able to describe how Locke’s position differed from Descartes’ position on innate ideas
Locke argued that the ideas and principles most often claimed to be innate do not occur in inexperienced or enfeebled minds.
A mind devoid of ideas at conception but passively receptive to sensation.
Tabula Rasa
__________ is nothing but the perception and the connection and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas.
Knowledge
__________ profoundly influenced subsequent philosophy and psychology.
Locke
____________ applied Locke’s associationistic principles to the systematic analysis of visual depth perception: arguing that the ability to see things in three dimensions is not innate, but rather the result of learned associations between the visual impressions of objects at different distances.
George Berkeley
What were Leibniz’s two fundamental discoveries?
Binary Arithmetic
Infinitesimal calculus
Know the title of Leibniz’s book
Theodicy
_________ were Leibniz’s ultimate unit of reality not material particles in motion, but rather an infinitude of energy-laden and soul-invested unit.
monads
Leibniz’s psycho-physical parallelism was an answer for ___________
Descartes’ interactive dualism
Necessary truths
Rules of arithmetic, the geometrical axioms, and the rules of logic
Two sorts of experiences (general categories) the mind has
- Sensations of objects in the external world
2. Reflections of the mind’s own operations
