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Naivety (also spelled naïvety), naiveness, or naïveté is the state of being naive. It refers to an apparent or actual lack of experience and sophistication, often describing a neglect of pragmatism in favor of moral idealism .
Scholars of classical Western rhetoric have divided figures of speech into two main categories: schemes and tropes. Schemes (from the Greek schēma, 'form or shape') are figures of speech that change the ordinary or expected pattern of words. For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition.
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Naive → Naivety – "Naive" is an adjective; the article should properly be about the concept of naivety, not the word "naive". Powers T 14:45, 14 August 2011 (UTC) The current title really only lends itself to being a dictionary definition. This article should probably be at naif. Except for the short "Science" section, that is the subject ...
For example, the developmental psychologist Jean Piaget argued that children view the world through an egocentric lens, and they have trouble separating their own beliefs from the beliefs of others. [10] In the 1940s and 1950s, early pioneers in social psychology applied the subjectivist view to the field of social perception. In 1948 ...
The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank is a projective psychological test developed by Julian Rotter and Janet E. Rafferty in 1950. [1] It comes in three forms i.e. school form, college form, adult form for different age groups, and comprises 40 incomplete sentences which the S's has to complete as soon as possible but the usual time taken is around 20 minutes, the responses are usually only 1 ...