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TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Give an example of a situation from your own experience that relates to the emergence of a social convention. Which one of the experimental scenarios from Sugawara (2012) was it most like? Briefly describe how the results compared (i.e., to a table or graph from the paper).
  2. In your own words, briefly describe the first experiment of Schneeberger et al. (2012).
  3. Select the sentence from Sugawara that you feel best represents the scientific thesis of the paper. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your selection.
  4. Identify the sentence or short passage (up to three sentences) from Schneeberger et al. that you feel best indicates the "limitations of the proposed approach" (Weinman, 2013). Briefly explain your choice.
  5. Select the sentence from Sugawara (2011) that you feel is most closely related to the research of Schneeberger et al. (2012). Briefly explain whether your choice supports, denies, or complicates the work from Schneeberger et al.