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Transcribed Image Text:After digesting all of the items in our Free Will Module, please respond to the questions
below in an essay-style post:
1. In your own words, how would you define Free Will? What about
Determinism?
2. Compare the big views: What do psychologists mean by soft determinism
and hard determinism? What's the key difference between the two in how
each view explains human behavior?
3. From the Baumeister "Free Will" article and the "Does Talk Therapy
Change the Brain?" article, what was one "thing" that stood out most to
you and why? (Not just what it said, but how it changed your thinking)
4. Looking back at the semester: Thinking about everything we covered this
semester (e.g., attention, memory, classical and/or operant conditioning,
Freud, Humanism, Biological Psychology, etc.):
。 Which one topic do you think gives the strongest evidence that
humans do have free will? And why do you think that?
Which one topic do you think gives the strongest evidence that
humans do not have free will? And why do you think that?
5. Describe one decision in your life (or a decision of someone you know) you
once thought was purely free will, but now-after this class-you see might
have been influenced by determinism. Or the opposite, describe one decision
in your life (or a decision of someone you know) you once thought was purely
"determined," but now - after this class - you see as perhaps being freely
willed. Describe the decision and explain how what you've learned in our
class changed your mind about it. It's also ok to use an example of something
you saw in the news that you once thought was purely free will, but
now-after this class-you might have been influenced by determinism. Or
the opposite, you originally thought it was purely determined and now you see
it as freely willed.
6. After reflecting on all of this, what do you personally believe about human free
will? Do we have it? Some of it? None of it? Or does it depend, and if so,
what does it depend on?
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