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Week 4 | Discussion Group Instructions Meet with your group each week for at least one hour. As time permits, deliberate and take notes on the Discussion questions or prompts listed below. As time permits, discuss Key Terms from this week’s Introduction and Key Terms page. Know the answers to all Group Evaluation questions. The notes you take here will be used for the Weekly Report assignment. Discussion Moral Intuitions 1. Share with the group examples of when you have experienced "moral intuitions." Point of clarity : This is not the same thing as examples when you felt the spirit. This is examples of when activities just seemed wrong to you (or good to you), whether or not you could articulate reasons why. An example I gave on my assignment was that I felt like it was the right thing to stop a kid from hitting another kid without knowing who was in the wrong. I just knew it was right to stop them from getting hurt. 2. Discuss: How would you explain to someone else the central themes of Haidt's social intuitionist theory? What is Haidt really saying here, in simple terms? What is the difference between "seeing that" and "reasoning why"? Seeing that is our initial response, while reasoning why is basically the reasoning we use to explain our response our action. 3. Share with each other examples when you have experienced or encountered confirmation bias. What strategies could you employ to overcome confirmation bias? An example of when I experienced comfirmation bias is when I really wanted to buy a macbook but my coworker had told me some disadvantages of having a macbook. However, I still tried to find solutions to what he had mentioned by looking up reasons to own a macbook. I think we can overcome this by actually considering the information that goes against our opinion. 4. Discuss: What does it look like to have a "scout" mindset? In what contexts do you want to better embrace a scout mindset? I believe this sort of relates back to number 3 on how to overcome confirmation bias, because with a scout mindset we are looking to get information on the facts about something. I would like to embrace the scout mindset everytime I feel unsure about something. Moral Responsiveness 5. Share together: When have you had a sense that something was "just the right thing to do?" Or that there was something you really ought to do (or not do)? 
I have felt this way a lot of times and most of the time, I always think about how I want to be treated if I was put in a situation like theirs. 6. Share together: When you had the above impression, did you follow through? Or not? What happened next? There have been a lot of times when I randomly helped a stranger pick up something they dropped because it was close to me and I have always done this without thinking, almost like my body picks up the item without asking me to do it. 7. Share together: When have you experienced self-justification, as described by Warner? How does it change your thinking? I have experienced self-justification a lot, and one of my experience was when I tried to justify my actions for not wishing someone a happy birthday because they didn’t wish me one on my last birthday, without thinking that maybe thye forgot or they were so busy. This changes our thinking because it makes us think that whatever we did is the right thing even though it might not have been. 8. Discuss together: What does it look like to have a heart at peace ? What does it look like to have a heart at war ? How does self-betrayal fit into this distinction? When you have a heart at peace it means you feel at peace and see everyone a shuman beings with their own struggles and needs while having a heart at war means feeling angry or defensive and you see others as objects or an obstacle. Self-betrayal fits into this because when you go against your own values, you create a conflict with youself which makes you more defensive and less understanding towards others. 9. Discuss together: What else did you learn in this unit that was personally meaningful, and why was it meaningful? One thing I learned is that we always look for something to justify our actions whenever we feel like we did the wrong thing. Moral Agency 10. Share with your group members examples of determinism in modern psychological theory.  An example I shared on my assignment is that determinism in psychology could be that our behaviors being shaped by external stimuli, like always washing our hands after using the bathroom. 11. Discuss: What are the consequences of embracing determinism in our theories?  A consequence could be leading people to feel powerless, thinking their actions don't matter because everything is already decided. 12. Discuss: What is indeterminism? How is it different from determinism? Is it the same thing as moral agency? Why or why not? Indeterminism is the belief that not all events are determined by causes, somethings happen at random. Indeterminism is different from determinism because indeterminism states that some things happen at random while determinism states that there is amways a cause. It isn’t the same because moral agency means being able to choose between right and wrong and then act on those choices, which is more than just things happening by chance. 13. Together, ensure that everyone in your group understands the metaphors that were discussed in the readings. How do these metaphors help us understand agency?  The metaphors helps us understand agency better by showing that our decisions have real impacts and that we are responsible for guiding our own paths.
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