PSYC 3P37 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Georg Simmel, Reca, Prosocial Behavior
13 Jan 2016
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Roughly 40 questions (mostly mc or check lists, a few fill in the blanks/ short answer) Give short and concise answers to written questions. Religious beliefs and practices are found in all societies. What feature(s) do we mean by religion : belief in supernatural and/or spiritual agents, system of ethics relating individual to group, etc, rituals/ rites for major sacred life events. Buddhism in theory has no gods ; but it does in practice. Chinese and japanese religions as mixtures of several different. Not all religions include ideas of salvation/damnation and afterlife. Not all religions have gods who are concerned with people"s moral/ethical behavior ethnocentric (own group only?) People distinguish between psychological objects (e. g. , people, other animals) which have motives, intentions, etc. (i. e. , agency) and physical objects (e. g. , rocks, plants etc. ) which don"t. Even 12-month-old babies understand concepts of falling and. Chasing (difference in intent) and also like looking and faces and understanding facial expressions.
