Starter quiz
- Which term means 'facts or information that support an idea'?
- assumption
- claim
- evidence ✓
- belief
- opinion
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- Which term is used in religious education to refer to a person's way of understanding, experiencing and responding to the world?
- religion
- scripture
- worldview ✓
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- Which term means an acceptance that something is true without needing to have proof?
- belief ✓
- concept
- doubt
- evidence
- theory
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- Which prophet was the Torah given to?
- Abraham
- Isaiah
- Noah
- Moses ✓
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- Which part of the human body is in charge of processing information and thoughts?
- bladder
- brain ✓
- heart
- kidney
- lung
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- Which term describes the process by which living things develop and change over time and generations?
- adaptation
- diversification
- evolution ✓
- extinction
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Exit quiz
- Put these events into the correct historical order.
- 1⇔Venus states are worshipped.
- 2⇔The pyramids are built.
- 3⇔The Torah is revealed to Moses.
- Which statement is the most accurate?
- Religious ideas have only been around for the last 4000 years.
- Religious ideas are only found in some countries in the world.
- Religious ideas have been found in every culture across the world. ✓
- Someone has to be part of a religion to accept religious ideas.
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- Which term is a social science which studies the mind?
- philosophy
- psychology ✓
- sociology
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- When we think there is a being that has caused an event to happen it can be known as agent ...
- 'detection' ✓
- Which term means a widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences such as good and bad luck being caused by behaviours?
- coincidence
- logic
- science
- superstition ✓
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- Which statements could describe how evolution could link to religious ideas?
- Humans have evolved to eat fruit and vegetables.
- Humans have evolved to see order and design in the natural world. ✓
- Humans have evolved to assume there is a being or force behind natural events. ✓
- Humans have evolved to run upright for hunting animals.
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Key learning points
- Psychologists study the mind and behaviours.
- Religious ideas are widespread across cultures and times.
- The human mind seems to be programmed to accept religious ideas.
- Evolution may have played a part in this programming.
Common misconception
That psychological explanations for religion mean there is no "God" or a Higher Power.
Psychological explanations can support faith as they can show how "God" or a Higher Power has designed the brain to believe.
Keywords
Psychology - the scientific study of the mind and behaviour
Agent detection - when an animal or human assumes another being is causing a natural event
Cognitive science - the scientific study of how the mind works, functions and behaves
Supernatural - something that exists beyond the laws of nature
Superstition - a widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences such as good and bad luck being caused by behaviours
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