A01 superstitions behaviour and magical thinking

Question 1

Talk about animism

Who came up with the explanation

Answer 1

Piaget

Question 2

What did Piaget say

Answer 2

That magical thinking can be explained because there’d be an association of objects with feelings

E.g. bed hurts when you jump on ut

Question 3

Talk about nominal realism

According to who

Answer 3

Piaget

Nominal thinking leads to kids having difficulty separating the names of things from the things themselves which carries on into adult thinking

Question 4

Support for nominal thinking

Answer 4

Rozin

Question 5

What did rozin do and find for nominal realism

Answer 5

Poured sugar into 2 glasses one said sugar other said cyanide which is a poison

Ppl still hesitated to go for glass labelled poison

Question 6

Talk about law of contagion

Answer 6

Things that had been in contact continue to act on each other even after physical contact ceases

E.g believing that a thing from someone special confers special powers

Question 7

Who supported law of contagion explanation

Answer 7

Rozin

Question 8

What did rozin do and find for law of contagion

Answer 8

It’s an evolutionary adaptation cz we don’t want to touch stuff that were in the hands of diseased people so explanation makes sense