Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are \"native\" or hard-wired into the brain at birth. This is in contrast to empiricism, the \"blank slate\" or tabula rasa view, which states that the brain has inborn capabilities for learning from the environment but does not contain content such as innate beliefs. This factor contributes to the ongoing nature versus nurture dispute.Some nativists believe that specific beliefs or preferences are \"hard wired\". For example, one might argue that some moral intuitions are innate or that color preferences are innate. A less established argument is that nature supplies the human mind with specialized learning devices. This latter view differs from empiricism only to the extent that the algorithms that translate experience into information may be more complex and specialized in nativist theories than in empiricist theories. However, empiricists largely remain open to the nature of learning algorithms and are by no means restricted to the historical associationist mechanisms of behaviorism."@en }
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- Psychological_nativism abstract "In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are \"native\" or hard-wired into the brain at birth. This is in contrast to empiricism, the \"blank slate\" or tabula rasa view, which states that the brain has inborn capabilities for learning from the environment but does not contain content such as innate beliefs. This factor contributes to the ongoing nature versus nurture dispute.Some nativists believe that specific beliefs or preferences are \"hard wired\". For example, one might argue that some moral intuitions are innate or that color preferences are innate. A less established argument is that nature supplies the human mind with specialized learning devices. This latter view differs from empiricism only to the extent that the algorithms that translate experience into information may be more complex and specialized in nativist theories than in empiricist theories. However, empiricists largely remain open to the nature of learning algorithms and are by no means restricted to the historical associationist mechanisms of behaviorism.".