Tabula rasa

creature he has actually created” (“Frankenstein”). Frankenstein, who has taken two years of his life to bring his creation to life, abandons it as a newborn. According to “Frankenstein”, Shelley was likely influenced by John Locke’s idea of the “Tabula Rasa”, the “ idea that the mind is a ‘blank slate’ when we are born”. In Frankenstein, the Monster seems to corroborate this. When Frankenstein approaches him and questions the Monster about the death of his brother and the framing of Justine…

(teachinglearningresources.com). The behaviourist approach was the main paradigm between 1920-1950 and as a result a lot of psychologists have conducted many study’s into this field. Behaviourist psychologists always present the child as a blank “tabula rasa” at birth, the child then learns by reacting to stimuli and reinforcements from the environment or people within that environment (Anning .A 2002). They developed two main categories within the behaviourism theory, operant conditioning and…

A major feature in the Caribbean, in regards to Labor Migration, is the relationship between unfree (slavery), ambiguously free (indenture), and free. These similarities and differences in treatment of Indians in the British Caribbean colonies, indentured Chinese in Cuba, and free laborers in Jamaica can be seen throughout history. These relationship betweens these groups and others in the Caribbean shapes the Caribbean we know today. These experiences can be seen through the difference and…

approval, and to be bad, a person would feel inferior. The long debate about “Are people actually good” has questioned the mind of philosophers and the average person for decades. From the perspective of many psychologists a person is born with “Tabula Rasa” a blank slate. When a person is born, they have a blank slate which states that humans are born with a completely open mind and that upbringing imprints belief and attitudes into their personality. In the book The Martian and the poem “Upon…

Every individual is made up of a variety of traits which base our patterns of thought, feelings and behaviours. There are many different theories in order to identify how we gain these traits. Neil Burger’s dystopian film Divergent portrays two of these trait theories through the characters and plot. The two theories present in the movie are the Five Factor Model of Human Personality and the theories of Nature versus Nurture. The Five Factor model of human personality is an empirical…

Consider the last time you heard people utter the phrases “ignorance is bliss”, “boys are stronger than girls”, and “the client is always right”. What do all three of these well-known sayings have in common? Well, they all focus in enslaving the mind to limited viewpoints, ones that focus on the least amount of effort. Let’s examine what is meant by being ignorant. According to Oxford English Dictionary ignorant describes the state of being “destitute of knowledge, either in general or with…

1 “You are so calm and peaceful just like your grandfather”, “and you are so selfish just like your mother”. These are all typical examples of nature-influenced human behavior. Many people, including myself may still or used to think that human behavior, our characteristics, and our way of thinking is acquired through inherited genes and there is no other way that we could have acquired them. 2 According to a survey that I have conducted among 137 individuals from several different religious,…

Since I never thought about the issue of my worldview, I had to think for a while about what my worldview is. As I read through the entire list, I found out that I am between a lot of worldviews, such as agnosticism and apatheism. Since my parents didn’t really have any religion, I felt it wasn’t necessary to have a religion. Maybe this is the reason why one of my worldviews is agnosticism, since I believe God doesn't exist. To justify my world view, I have relativistic and absolute truth…

The nature versus nurture debate is one of the oldest philosophical issues within psychology. Nature refers to all genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are - from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics. Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture. Even today, different branches of psychology often take one or the other…

WHY CHURCH HISTORY MATTERS CH. 4-6 I like Rea's statement that, "Christians can be very different from one another, across cultures and across centuries. Yet in every culture the Christians hold core beliefs common." I think this speaks of something greater working through man (the Holy Spirit). He even could have went a step further I believe he could have added social economic status and still you would see these same common beliefs. As a Christian I have looked at key moments in my life that…