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| • | Nativism:
Kant and Descartes, human skills are inborn |
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| • | Empiricism:
Locke and Berkeley, Helmholtz,
skills |
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| learned
through experience or 'effort' |
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| • | Constuctivism:
Piaget, kids need to go through conceptual |
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| development |
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| • | Maturation:
skills aquired after birth might not be |
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| learning,
but could be maturation of the brain |
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| • | more
modern approach – a mix - Fantz: using experiments |
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| to
determine the different development timelines for |
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| different
skills |
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