Folk science — describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without the use of rigorous methodologies (see Scientific method). One could label all understanding of nature predating the Greeks as folk science .Folk science is… … Wikipedia
Folk taxonomy — A folk taxonomy is a vernacular naming system, and can be contrasted with scientific taxonomy. Folk biological classification is the way rural or indigenous peoples make sense of and organize their natural surroundings/the world around them,… … Wikipedia
Biology of gender — The biology of gender is scientific analysis of the physical basis for behavioural differences between men and women. It is more specific than sexual dimorphism, which covers physical and behavioural differences between males and females of any… … Wikipedia
Nomenclature — For conventions governing Wikipedia article names, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions, for soviet class, see Nomenklatura. Nomenclature is a term that applies to either a list of names and/or terms, or to the system of principles, procedures and… … Wikipedia
Evolutionary educational psychology — is the study of the relation between inherent folk knowledge and abilities and accompanying inferential and attributional biases as these influence academic learning in evolutionarily novel cultural contexts, such as schools and the industrial… … Wikipedia
Eliminative materialism — (also called eliminativism) is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind. Its primary claim is that people s common sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people… … Wikipedia
Mickey Mouse Problem — The evolutionary theory of religion developed by Pascal Boyer, Scott Atran and others differs from previous attempts to explain why religion exists in that it does not assign certain essential characteristics to religion, but instead uses an… … Wikipedia
Adaptationism — is a set of methods in the evolutionary sciences for distinguishing the products of adaptation from traits that arise through other processes. It is employed in fields such as ethology and evolutionary psychology that are concerned with… … Wikipedia
Etnolingüística — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Introducción La relatividad lingüística como relativismo cultural. Todas las lenguas, al nombrar los objetos del mundo material que los rodea y agruparlos dentro de categorías comunes, lo que hacen es clasificar… … Wikipedia Español
Linguistic universal — A linguistic universal is a statement that is true for all natural languages. For example, All languages have nouns and verbs, or All spoken languages have consonants and vowels. Research in this area of linguistics is closely tied to linguistic… … Wikipedia
