Soc Psych

Assignment 1

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Question 1

Complete the following table (Words and brief sentences):

Definition Example(Provide psychology related example

Epistemology Is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. It addresses the questions:

What is knowledge?

How is knowledge acquired?

To what extent is it possible for a given subject or entity to be known? An example of this could be truth itself. How do we know that something is true? Do we have to experience it in order for us to conclude it to be true? Or is truth limited by technology, culture etc.

Example: Very primitive tribe is unaware that fire can be started with a lighter. A foreigner shows the tribe the lighter and how he can switch the fire on and off. Tribe then assumes that the foreigner has special powers and is a God

Theory A theory a guess or a hunch that is based upon a hypothesis and backed by evidence. A theory presents a concept or idea that is testable. Freud’s theory of psychosexual development which states that personality develops through a series of childhood stages during which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous areas. This psychosexual energy, or libido, was described as the driving force behind behavior.

Model A model is a quantitative explanation/description of the act of representing something For example, physiological psychologists use animal models, typically rats, to study the neural, genetic, and cellular mechanisms that underlie specific behaviors.

Technique The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished. The Persuasion technique that is used by advertisers in coercing consumers to buy their products for example a visual advertisement on Dettol Soap seen on Television is intended to make consumers want to buy the product

References

www.wikipedia.org

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