Maps
It's All Greek to Me
Case Studies
Measuring our minds
Knowledge is fun.
100
A construction of reality which includes our ideas of what is true and what is false.
What is a mental map?
100
The father of western philosophy.
Who is Socrates?
100
Name of philosopher whose theory of ethics spawned a shooting.
Who was Kant?
100
Collecting data which are concerned with describing meaning, rather than with drawing statistical inferences
What is qualitative data?
100
Author of "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"
Who was Carl Sagan?
200
Eurocentric projection of the world created in the 1500's by a little Dutchman.
What is the Mercator Projection?
200
Greek word meaning, " a moment of shared bliss", "a let's all get on a plane and fly to Vegas moment".
What is kefi?!
200
The British High Court denied this man's right to take his own life after he was left paralyzed from the neck down.
Who was Tony Nicklinson?
200
Experiment, hypothesis, observation, law, theory
What is the scientific method?
200
Pseudo-science practice of telling a demon to leave a possessed body.
What is an excorcism?
300
The projection that more accurately reflects the relative sizes of land masses;it has the southern hemisphere on top and the northern hemisphere on the bottom.
What is the Hobo-Dyer Projection
300
The figure in the famous painting, "The School of Athens" who points heavenward.
Who is Plato?
300
Case that spurred emotional appeal over the legality of an adoption and the origin of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act.
What is Adoptive Couple Vs. Baby Girl?
300
When you find information that explicitly confirms your hypothesis...but you kind of ignore the other stuff.
What is confirmation bias?
300
Justified true belief.
What is knowledge?!!!
400
Author of "The Late Birth of a Flat Earth"
Who is Stephen Jay Gould?
400
The philosopher concerned with logic, ethics, and a system of classification for animals.
Who was Aristotle?
400
Theory which states that language acquisition is biologically linked to age.
What is the critical period hypothesis?
400
A problem of human science in which the observed is aware of the observer leading them to change their behavior.
What is the observer-effect?
400
I see it with my eyes, so I know I believe it is true!!!
What is empirical belief?
500
If a map is useful, than it must of necessity be imperfect.
What is the paradox of cartography?
500
The philosopher who above most things valued mathematics.
Who was Plato?
500
Linguists used this RLS to try to determine the origins of speech.
What is "Genie"?
500
Although individual behaviour may be unpredictable, when people are in large crowds, their behaviour tends to mimic the emotion of the crowd, making their actions more predictable.
What is herd or mob mentality?
500
You believe in an eternal afterlife, I believe in reicarnation What's true for you is certain and what's true for me is certain, so it's all good.
What is relativism?