Reflection Week 1

This week I was particularly interested in were the ideas of John Locke about  'tabular rasa' (blank slate). It's interesting that the Nativist thought that everyone was born with innate ideas about God (believing that God was inside us. John Locke did not believe this, he believed that the mind becomes furnished (we gain knowledge through two sources): sensations- meaning our experience with the world and 2: reflection on all that we have experienced. Locke was a radical in his day and thankfully he was because his ideas are a huge factor in what we think of how humans process everything they experience. He got a lot of people thinking and doing research in this area of human cognition.

This week we also focused on a few areas of the brain-Broca's and Wernick's areas. Broca's area is where speech is produced while Wernick's area has to do with the comprehension of language. It is truly fascinating that we have learned the most of these areas by people being hurt (Phineas Gage and stroke patients) and then scientist do subsequent tests on animals to confirm their findings. I really just find how we figure out what the parts of the brain do fascinating.