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Nagel says, "No further justification is needed to make it reasonable to take aspirin for a headache, attend an exhibit of the work of a painter one admires, or stop a child from putting his hand on a hot stove. No larger context or further purpose is needed to prevent these acts from being transcendent."
Social Categorization
The assignment of a person one has just met to a category based on characteristics the new person has in common with other people with whom one has had experience in the past.
Cognitive Dissonance
A psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.
Operant Conditioning
A learning process in which the frequency of an organism's behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.
Positive Reinforcement
A process in operant conditioning where a behavior is followed by a rewarding stimulus, increasing the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.
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