Epoch TOPICS CONTEXTS PERSPECTIVES ACTIVITIES METHODS FIGURES HELP TIME LINE Acknowledgements ACTIVITY 3 Exploring persepctives ACTIVITY 1 Using the timeline ACTIVITY 2 Using the biographies ACTIVITY 5 Using the figures, methods, perspectives, topics and context icons ACTIVITY 4 Exploring Topics Ainsworth Allport Baddeley Baron-Cohen Asperger Asch Binet Bartlett Bilig Belbin Bowlby Bruce Buss Cattell Ceci Byrne Bruner Bryant Cohen Cosmides Chomsky Cooper Charcot Conway Damasio Darwin Costa Dawkins Csikszentmihalyi Crick Erikson Eysenck Ekman Descartes Ebbinghaus Dennet Frith Freud Anna Freud Sigmund Falschung Fodor Festinger Goffman Gibson Goodall Galton Goldberg Gathercole Gregory Humphrey James Heider Janet Goodman Kahneman Lazarus Jung Kanner Klein Kelly Mayo McCrae Luria Loftus Lorenz Maslow Neisser Norman Morton Milgram Milner Mead Potter Plomin Piaget Pinker Penfield Pavlov Tajfel Sperry Skinner Saywitz Spears Rogers Triesman Turner Tulving Tooby Taylor Thorndike Weiskrantz Vrij Aldert Warrington Watson Vygotsky Tversky Wundt Zimbardo Whiten Wetherell You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours You can check your answers against ours

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Note Node Kahneman, Daniel url anchor

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Social cognition. This field of psychology examines the processing of social knowledge - perceiving, thinking, judging and explaining objects, events, relationships and issues in the social world. As a broad topic it involves some attempt to integrate cognitive and social psychology. It tends to depend on the experimental methods of cognitive psychology and thus is a substantial part of EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. url anchor
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Note Node This emphasis on the internal state of the individual is reflected in the theories that Kahneman put forward, suggesting that attention may be influenced by the amount of effort available, and the level of arousal of the individual. url anchor

Note Node After his discharge from military service, he took further courses in the philosophy of science and logic. In 1969 he began an important collaboration with Tversky, which looked at individual heuristics and biases, and demonstrated that people often show pronounced biases in estimating the probability that an event will occur. url anchor

Note Node In 1955 Kahneman joined a military unit where he was responsible for the classification and selectio n of army recruits. During this time he developed a semi structured interview technique for personality assessment. url anchor

Note Node Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. He spent his early childhood in France, returning to Israel i n 1946.He studied Psychology and Mathematics at Hebrew University, Jerusalem and later (1961) obtained a PhD from the University of California. url anchor

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