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The novel insight that Mencius brought to Confucius’ thought was that human nature is essentially and innately good.
Option: (C)
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- The entire faith or the religion of Confucianism is based on the thought of the goodness of human nature and the significance of virtue in human life.
- Mencius, a renowned Confucian philosopher, proposed that human nature is originally good and is only subjected to contamination due to external influences.
- He also stated that human nature can be perfected by inculcating virtue on the minds of people.
Answer: the contestants and observers thought the questioners were more knowledgeable than the contestants.
Explanation: Ross et al published a paper in the journal of personality and social psychology in 1977 titled
"Social Roles, Social Control, and Biases in Social-Perception Processes". They demonstrated that our actions and perceptions are determined by roles we have to play in interpersonal encounters; this is the biasing effect social roles have on performance.
In this instance the observers and the contestants perceived the questioners as having superior knowledge as the questioners were given latitude in how they frame the questions. Due to their social roles, the questioners were "the powerful" while the contestants and observers were "the powerless" playing out their roles and not taking into account the biasing effect.
If the roles were switched around, the outcome would still be the same with each group irrespective of their actual ability and knowledge.
Sociodramatic play is considered an example of symbolic play.
Sociodramatic play is part of a dramatic play. All dramatic plays are symbolic. A child pretends to take on a role of somebody else, imitating action and speech from earlier observed actions. The roles and the actions <em>are symbols to be copied from.</em>
In a sociodramatic play, another person apart from the child becomes involved in the game. The children mix elements of reality and make-believe characters, imitate people and their actions, and get involved in different roles play.
Ethnographic research continues to provide a deep understanding of informants' everyday lives and cultures, due participant observation. Participant observation is type of method for collecting data in order to make qualitative research of cultures, people and processes. In this method <span>the observer participates in ongoing activities and records observations.</span>
