TOK Human Sciences

a study of the workings of the human mind and how they are manifested in human interactions and activities

• anthropology

• psychology

• economics

• human sciences

the study of how society manages its scarce resources

• anthropology

• linguistics

• economics

• tabula rasa

an example of selective inattention; we pay attention to what we are told to pay attention to.

• tabula rasa

• The Stanford Prison Experiment

• Gorilla Experiment

• The Milgram Experiment

Was designed to provide insight into obedience to authority

• Milgram Experiment

• Stanford Prison Experiment

• Gorilla Experiment

• Chomsky

the idea that human behavior is controlled by the physical environment

• environmental determinism

• genetic determinism

• reductionism

• utilitarianism

Innate language theory

• Milgram

• Stanford

• Chomsky

• Pinker

the mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience; a blank slate

• genetic determinism

• environmental determinism

• golden rule

• tabula rasa

an example of selective inattention: colors versus the names of colors

• placebo

• Stroop Technique

• Hawthorne Effect

• normative statement

a factual claim about how the world actually works

• positive statement

• normative statement

opinion

• positive statement

• normative statement

• qualitative data

• quantitative data