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Psychology: Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. It encompasses human development, cognition, emotion, personality, social behavior, and mental disorders. See also Stages of Development, Social Behavior, Behavior, Personality, Personality traits, Emotion, Cognition.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Paul Churchland on Psychology - Dictionary of Arguments

Pauen I 94
Paul ChurchlandVsEveryday psychology/Pauen:
1. it fails with central problems: development and dynamics of mental illnesses, ability to creative imagination, causes of intelligence differences.
2. Everyday psychology will not resolve this in the foreseeable future. In primitive cultures, their reach was much greater: here, it is even applied to natural phenomena. (Pathetic fallacy: jealous moon, annoying wind).
3. Within the sciences, everyday psychology leads a wallflower existence.
Pauen I 95
Churchland: Turning from the Neurobiological Approach to Neuroinformatics.
Even the fight against crime could benefit from the elimination of everyday psychology.
Pauen I 96
Churchland: the vocabulary of everyday psychology will disappear.
>Folk psychology.


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Churla I
Paul M. Churchland
Matter and Consciousness Cambridge 2013

Churli I
Patricia S. Churchland
Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Brains New York 2014

Churli II
Patricia S. Churchland
"Can Neurobiology Teach Us Anything about Consciousness?" in: The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates ed. Block, Flanagan, Güzeldere pp. 127-140
In
Bewusstein, Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1996

Pauen I
M. Pauen
Grundprobleme der Philosophie des Geistes Frankfurt 2001


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