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Sources of External Information That Originate with the Sellers of Products

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Sources of external information that originate with the sellers of products and services and include advertising, company websites, salespeople, and point-of-purchase displays in stores are referred to as

Explain different psychological perspectives, including their views on human nature, causes of behavior, and methodologies.

Distinguish between basic and applied research through examples.

Critically evaluate various research methodologies and perspectives within psychology to understand behavior and mental processes.

Understand the concepts of simple and compound interest and how they affect loan and investment returns.

Definitions:

Science

The disciplined pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and truth through experimental observation, empirical evidence, and theoretical explanation.

Experience

Practical interaction with the world and the knowledge we gain through it. Today the term science tends to be limited to those questions that can and must be answered by reference to experience and extrapolations from experience.

Extrapolations

Predictions or inferences about unknown data made based on known or observed information.

Rational

In accordance with the rules of effective thought concerning coherence, consistency, practicability, simplicity, comprehensiveness, looking at the evidence and weighing it carefully, not jumping to conclusions, and so on. Rationality may not guarantee truth; all the evidence and everything we believe may point to one conclusion, and yet later generations, who know things that we do not, may see that our conclusion was incorrect. It was rational thousands of years ago to believe that the earth was flat, even though it was not true. It is not rational for us to believe the same thing, for our evidence and all sorts of other beliefs indicate, rather, that it is rational to believe that the earth is (more or less) spherical.