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In this section we will focus on the following knowledge questions:
How do we decide whether a particular discipline should be regarded as a human science?
Are predictions in the human sciences inevitably unreliable?
Is human behaviour too unpredictable to study scientifically?
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Do the human sciences and literature provide different types of knowledge about human existence and behaviour?
What are the main difficulties that human scientists encounter when trying to provide explanations of human behaviour?
Do the boundaries between different disciplines and different areas of knowledge help or hinder understanding?
Is it possible to discover laws of human behaviour in the same way that the natural sciences discover laws of nature?
How does advertising utilize knowledge of human psychology to influence and persuade us?
Task - research a number of different adverts. Who do they appeal to and why? What influences us as humans and why - can we always determine what we will be influenced by?
2. Task - make a list of ten different products, don't show anyone what is on your list. When are ready call out your list and ask your friends to say either male or female after you call out each product. Why do they/you associate certain products with certain genders?
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