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Folk Psychology

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Folk psychology - Wikipedia

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folk psychology, or commonsense psychology, is a human capacity to explain and predict the behavior and mental state of other people

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folk psychology represents causal knowledge associated with the mind’s categorization processes

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psychology is actively employed in aiding the explanation of everyday actions

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consider a person who wants to achieve a goal, “G”, and believes action “A” will aid in attaining “G”; this leads to an intention to perform “A”, which is then carried out to produce action “A”.

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criticism stems from the prevailing impression that folk psychology is a primitive practice reserved for the uneducated and non-academics in discussing their everyday lives.[

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significant debate over whether folk psychology is useful for academic purposes

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