CIN306H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)
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Theories of laughter (3 diff ways in which laughter is said to occur according to theorists) A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics: five categories of intelligence. Humor teaches us how to live between categories. Humans are better at perceiving info than animals (no shit) A joke is a play upon firm tat affords an opportunity for realizing that the accepted pattern is not of necessity. Anthropomorphism: the projection of human attributes onto non-human beings and objects. 1: the belief that the human is at the center of existence; the most important of all beings and things in the universe. The jealous person (or the lover in any case to a certain extent) wants there to be a relationship only between them and that lover; they want themselves to be the only ones.
