Plato and Aristotle, for instance, were both philosophers with different views on the issue. Plato believed that knowledge and behavior were due to innate factors, while Aristotle backed up the idea of tabula rasa, which means "blank slate". ... The thought of the first psychologist that I would like to present in this discussion is by Noam Chomsky, in particular in relation to his belief around the acquisition of language by children. ... It is the "Acorn" theory, postulated by James Hillman in his book The Soul's Code. The central premise of the book is that each on...

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I agree with Darwin. I believe animals do exhibit emotions, and denying that animals have emotions because the subject cannot be studied directly is not a reasonable explanation. ... He said "A greylag goose that has lost its partner shows all the symptoms that John Bowlby has described in young human children in his famous book Infant Grief. . . the eyes sink deep into their sockets, and the individual has an overall drooping experience, literally letting their head hang." ...

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Freud reportedly admired Aristotle's assertion that dreaming is the activity of the mind during sleep (Fine, 1973). ... David Foulke, who wrote the book Dreaming: A Cognitive Psychoanalysis Analysis, correctly states " that dreams don't mean anything ". ... According to Aristotle's accurate definition," a dream is thinking that persists in the state of sleep." ...

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