Theres Debate About Whether People Have Free Will

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psychology aims to explain why

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people behave in certain ways

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the free will verses determinism debate centres around whether

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people can choose how to behave or whether what they do is influenced by others

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Free Will: people are able to choose how to behave

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their behavior isn’t a response to external or biological factors and isn’t influenced by past behavior

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Comments on Free Will: people can explain behaviors in terms of

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decisions and intentions

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Comments on Free WIll: free will is subjective

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someone might think their choosing how to behave but actually be influenced by other forces

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Comments on Free Will: some people with psychological disorders

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don’t appear to have free will

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Determinism: all of the physical events in the universe occur in

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cause and effect relationships

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Determinism: our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors are determined by

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past events and causes

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Determinism: it is a scientific view that implies that

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complete knowledge of a cause and effect relationship will mean you can predict future behavior in the same situation

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Comments on Determinism: the determinism is very

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scientific

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Comments on Determinism: other scientific subjects have shown that events in the physical universe operate according to

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cause and effect relationships that follow certain laws

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Comments on Determinism: determinism is unfalsifiable

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it can’t be proved wrong because it assumes that events can be the results of forces that haven’t been discovered yet