Folk psychology

same person from day to day, birth to death, has still not been concluded. There is both disagreement on whether continuity of identity is even possible for a person’s whole existence and on how one can define this. Is it the continuity of their psychology (being their personality, thought processes etc.), or is it the continuity of their physical body? Could it be something else entirely? In this essay I will set out to analyse the arguments for each of these, focusing firstly on the…

Everyone displays behavior in unique ways. There are those who exercise excessively and those who are generally inactive, those who like to outshine and those who feel comfortable in the shadows of others, those who enjoy eating too much and those whom don’t eat enough. There are thrill-seeking adventurers and those prefer the comfort of their home, the timid and the bold, and every other possible mixture. “Living with Our Genes” argues that genes are the single most important factor in the…

Nature and nurture interact and play a critical role in every individual’s life, but ultimately one overpowers the other. Psychosocial rehabilitation specialist and author of Everything Psychology Book, Kendra Cherry, refers to nature as “all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are” and refers to nurture as “all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding…

Do people have propositional attitudes? How does the form cognitive science should take depend on the answer to this question? “We have no idea of how to explain ourselves to ourselves except in a vocabulary which is saturated with belief/desire psychology. One is tempted to transcendental argument: What Kant said to Hume about physical objects holds, mutatis mutandis, for the propositional attitudes; we can't give them up because we don't know how to. ” (source, Fodor) Propositional attitudes…

Happiness is a life-long pursuit Even if you are one of those lucky folks that are born happy it’s not something you can choose to ignore. Happiness needs to be nurtured, fed and grown. Sure, everyone experiences some degree of short term happiness in their lives whether it’s from school or work achievements, life celebrations (birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, etc.) or pleasurable experiences like vacations or holidays. But most folks treat these as temporary moments. They are not “Happy”…

occurs when she states that Janie “learns to empower herself” followed by Janie’s act of self-defense. Janie’s act of self-defense appears to be the realization that Tea Cake will not recover from his disease. Further study of feminism and the psychology of abuse, oppression, and recovery are required. Shawn E. Miller’ article, “Some Other Way to Try: From Defiance to Creative Submission in Their Eyes Were Watching God”, challenges the conventional belief of Janie Crawford as “an internal…

a conception of sociality can address many of the problems that have plagued more traditional theories of social interaction and, when taken together with research from the social sciences, offer a framework for understanding in-group/out-group psychology and accompanying social phenomena. Historically, one of the major…

Lecture 1: The Brain: Between the Ears, Behind the Eyes begins with a brief introduction to psychology. The professor, Jeremy Wolfe, explains his definition of “folk psychology” as the psychology people pick up from everyday life without taking an actual psychology course. Furthermore, Professor Wolfe states that this course will be more in depth than just folk psychology. Shortly after, he poses the following question to his class: “What is love?” He explains that love is defined as an emotion,…

starting over again a place where she would feel welcomed. Ruth’s life took many tragic turns. In 1949 she got her first teaching job working with Yemenite children and met David, an Israeli soldier, who she married. The next year she Ruth studied psychology in Paris at the Sorbonne. She later took a job at Planned Parenthood, Dr. Ruth felt so comfortable talking about sex that “she began to pursue a career in sexual education (German Corner).” In 1970 Dr. Ruth received her doctorate in…

nurture. This is a verbal confrontation that has been continuing for quite a long time and is one of the most seasoned contentions ever. Clinicians needed to know to what degree are specific parts of conduct a result of the qualities we acquire from our folks or are we molded more by obtained attributes. The nature versus nurture debate spotlights on whether a man's improvement is decided in his DNA (heredity, qualities) or is its greater part impacted by life encounters (condition). Is it…