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Experiments are conducted to try to find the CAUSES of EFFECTS, in all scientific subjects.
a Theory can only be DISPROVED, it cannot be PROVED…
Kant described three mental activities: Knowing, Feeling and Willing. Today, Psychologists often distinguish
altruism – helping others
without apparent personal benefit – so the genes survive
positivistic Zeitgeist – the intellectual and economic environment,
Associationism, in its simplest form, is the study of how ideas get linked together, and trying to find “laws” that describe and explain behaviour.
COGNITION as the processes “by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used… cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do”.
The tendency to use our own ethnic or cultural group’s norms and values to define what’s “natural” and “correct” is called “ethnocentrism”
The Halo Effect occurs when we generalize a person’s Central Traits.
