PSYCH 1X03 Chapter 1: Psychology Journal Article - Don’t Know Much Biology- Our Trouble Classifying the Living World
6 Nov 2016
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Psychology journal article - do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) mu(cid:272)h biolog(cid:455): our trou(cid:271)le classif(cid:455)i(cid:374)g the li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g world. Psychologists are very interested in how the mature mind sorts the living world and where we put ourselves in relation to other life-forms. How we recognize life, and arrange the living world in our mind is not as obvious as one would think. Motion for example is seen in many living things, but as well, in rivers, clouds and rocket ships. Some living things do not appear to move at all. Children make a lot of mistakes about what is animated and what is not: overtime we out-grow our simple, childish ideas and replace them with a sophisticated view of the natural world. Do (cid:449)e reall(cid:455) dis(cid:272)ard all our (cid:374)a (cid:448)e thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g as (cid:449)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e the (cid:449)orld a(cid:374)d lear(cid:374) a(cid:271)out it"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454)it(cid:455): experiment: college students shown a long list of words, one at a time, and very rapidly.
