SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Statistical Significance, Telephone Directory, Psychological Reports
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Puzzle: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Concrete experience obtained by seeing, touching, tasting, smelling or hearing: percepts the smallest bits of concrete experience, patterns collections of related precepts, eg. A single dot precept, selection of dots pattern: two characteristics of concrete experience. Experience you share with all other living creatures. Concrete level of experience is meaningless by its self. Abstract experience the imaginary world of the mind: concepts abstract terms used to organize concrete experience, propositions ideas that result from finding the relationship between concepts, eg. You see a pen, and develop different experiences for each one: colour, size, and flawed/unflawed. Each of them is a pen , naming process known as conceptualization, organize concrete experience by placing the objects into a single, meaningful category. In everyday life, believing is seeing; our bias influences what we observe: chicken soup gets rid of colds- its works for my family.