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free will and determinism Flashcards

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free will

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the idea that we have the chance to behave in that way - personal responsibility

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determinism

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behaviour is controlled by external or internal factors

all behaviour is determined and thus predictable

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compatabilism

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soft determinism- both supporting free will and determinism

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libertarianism

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not caused deterministically

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hard determinism

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no free will

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hard indeterminism

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nothing is predetermined but still no free will

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standard objections to free will

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determinism objection and randomness objection

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determinism objection

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determinism is true

our actions are pre determined- no free will

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randomness objection

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chance exists - we lack control

hard indeterminism

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libet study

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shows us that we are pre determined

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what reduces free will

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cognitive biases

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cognitive baises

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bandwagon effect
confirmation bias
impact bias

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bandwagon effect

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tendency to do or believe things many other people do the same

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confirmation bias

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the tendency to only look for recognise and remember information consistent with your prior beliefs

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impact bias

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the tendency to overestimate the length of the intensity of a feeling

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evolutionary theory

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a unit of selection adopted to survive and reproduce

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behaviourism

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a collection of stimulus - response pairs

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social psychology

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a collection of beliefs about yourself

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cognitive dissonance

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Leon festinger

situation involving conflicting attitudes = discomfort - alteration in one of the attitudes to restore balance

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free will - philosophical view

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capacity to choose among alternatives based on coherent self preferences

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choices

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satisfies the Hobbesian principle of alternative possibilities - organism is only responsible for its actions if it could have done otherwise

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coherence

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satisfies the need that there is someone doing the deciding - exclusive to the individual

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