User:JL8U



Student at the University of Western Ontario in his senior year. Enrolled in a Cognitive Science course.



Topic
Folk Psychology is my topic for this assignment. I am interested in further understanding both the subject's influence on the field of psychology and its contribution to the recognition of psychology as a science revolving around the principles of the Scientific Method.

Tentative Article Layout
Aim: To expand upon the existing article covering Folk psychology
 * "Folk Psychology" general information & introducing key points of article
 * - definition
 * - folk-lore dimension of domain
 * - academic dimension (if any) of the domain
 * - elements of folk psychology


 * Key Procedural Principles
 * - (ie: how one reaches a conclusion in Folk Psychology)


 * Applications
 * - the uses of folk psychology vis-a-vis psychological science
 * - use as a narrative practice


 * Major Criticisms (citing multiple academic journal articles)
 * - it's effect in terms of encouraging the use of cognitive heuristics and biases and context effects in the scientific community in reaching scientifically acceptable conclusions of hypotheses (ie: counter to Scientific Method, etc.)


 * Counter-Arguments to Criticisms (citing multiple academic journal articles)
 * - folk psychology is not so much a predictive device as it is as "multi-purpose tool"

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