PNB 3RM3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Falsifiability, Facilitated Communication

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
• Course: PNB 3RM3
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

If there"s no way of collecting data to support a theory, it is a bad theory. Best support involves o o o replication (especially when you find someone new and unexpected) - replication is better between labs. Converging evidence - collecting data from different research modalities - if each route of data supports our theory, then we have a strong theory. Falsifiable - you must be able to find evidence that can"t support it. Freud: he would come up with a theory, and if the patient tries to protest, Freud would be right still because of his theory of denial. Stanovich"s tiny green men - he believed two tiny green men in the brain that controlled all processes, however these little green men can sense all imaging techniques and would disappear when we are trying to use them.