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Psych 217 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers 2024

Psych 217 Final Exam Questions With Solutions Naturalistic Fallacy What is typical does not determine what is right (this behavior is "natural" (or evolved) therefore it is moral) BE AWARE OF THIS Why does evolution matter? Can't assume we can make any moral system we want, but brains and culture are rooted in history & character of our species Motivational Autonomy Biology determines what CAN be not what MUST be (brain and social structure are like building blocks and how they're p...

is what is typical right? not always naturalistic fallacy what is natural (evolved) must be moral - this helps us from incorrectly arguing that there is a biological basis to determining our values - we cannot easily create any moral system that we want - Our brains and our culture are rooted in the evolutionary history and character of our species Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen Brainpower Read More wha...

Psych 217 Exam 1 With 100% Correct Answers 2024

RLGN 105-1 Question and answers already passed 2024RLGN 105 Oversimplification - correct answer Concluding that an effect has only one cause when it is really the result of multiple causes. Hasty Conclusion - correct answer Making a judgment on the basis of one or even a few samples. Overgeneralization/Stereotyping - correct answer Making a judgment about an entire Group based on behavior, mostly undesirable, of a few from that group. False Analogies - correct answer Arguing on the...

Purpose of Economics To make the world more understandable. Explains how the society we live in "hangs together." How hundreds and millions of strangers work together in a society. What is the difference between a positive statement and a normative statement? A positive statement is a statement of a fact. A normative statement is of opinion. Econ focuses on positive statements. Ad hominem fallacy By demand; Committed when someone judges the correctness of the argument based on the person del...

Psych 217: Exam 1 Questions With Solutions The Naturalistic Fallacy Just because a behavior is natural/evolved/typical, doesn't mean that the behavior must be moral Motivational Autonomy Our species typical brain and social structure provide a lot of building blocks for our psychology, but how we put those building blocks together is up to us Key Features of the Human Brain A rich emotion system, a slower conscious system, culture as a means of behavioral control, cognitive and behavio...

Which of the following individuals and their proposed methods were pivotal in recognizing the antiquity of our planet? Hutton's Uniformitarianism principle Darwin's theory of evolution includes 5 distinct theories. Which of the following is NOT one of them? Evolution occurs through protein synthethis T of F? Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection was published before Gregor Mendel's work on genetics and inheritence became well-known. True Lamarck's evolutionary theory of argued cha...

PSYC 331 Midterm 1 |98| questions with complete solution intergroup relations definition - Correct Answer any aspect of human interaction that involves individuals as perceiving or being perceived as members of a social category prejudice - Correct Answer - attitudes towards people based solely on their groups - affective component stereotypes - Correct Answer - beliefs about a group of people - cognitive - 3 aspects: shared cultural belief, accuracy, descriptive and prescriptive discrimi...

is what is typical right? - not always naturalistic fallacy - what is natural (evolved) must be moral - this helps us from incorrectly arguing that there is a biological basis to determining our values - we cannot easily create any moral system that we want - Our brains and our culture are rooted in the evolutionary history and character of our species what are our moral institutions influenced by? - our brain and species- a typical social structure what does biology determine? - it det...