POL 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Nonsteroidal, Reinforcement
15 Dec 2017
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Politics comes from the greek word polis city state: the study of power and the authoritative allocation of values for a society. Political philosophy asks what is the greatest good? then seeks a political apparatus to achieve that greatest good. Political science replaces philosophy with methodology and logic examines the apparatus empirically then draws conclusions about the apparatus. Cognitive dissonance; mind"s desire to resolve conflicting beliefs in a manner biased to pre-existing beliefs and knowledge. Cognitive disequilibrium; refers to the mind"s desire to resolve the seeming incongruity between a cause and an effect. If the number of non-users tested positive is high, then the drug test is bs. American government is the study of the constitutions and the institutions established by the. Constitution for the exercise of authority by the american people, over the american people. Without government, the life of man would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short -leviathan, 1651.
