PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Great Man Theory, Cognitive Bias

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 101
• Professor: Stephen Voss

Document Summary

It is thought that they came over and killed native americans, but they were already gone due to disease. Cognitive bias: celebrity bias (great man theory: looking at complex events and sticking it to one person, paul revere: the british are coming! , myth: he was british, george washington, pilgrims, minutemen. Simplification: event bias: reduce complex things to certain events, battles, boston tea party, sam adams. Simplification: the role of ideas justifications/ideas come after the event: boston tea party -- wasn"t a tea tax they were going against. Simplification (of events or groups): the founding : there wasn"t a president in the beginning of the revolution, more than a decade passed. Were the constitution"s framers same people as the founders: there were no founding fathers , some were founders (founded) and some were people who wrote the constitution (framers, some of these framers were very young