PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deductive Reasoning, Construct Validity, List Of Fables Characters
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An example of reading automatically illustrating how prior knowledge in uences your perceptions. Where a young child where notice the repetition of a word twice in a sentence, our brain is programmed to common sense". The two most important points to remember as you encounter psychological research in action are that: operational de nitions are essential b. they are always open to argument. Before collecting data, choices must be made that will determine the level of analysis that is applied to the problem. The most common levels of analysis include: learning, cognition, social, development, and evolution. Parsimony: when presented with two equally good explanations for some phenomenon, scientists tend to prefer the simplest out of the two, it is the equivalent of the penalty shootout when a game ends in a tie. If one team clearly wins, it isn"t required: it is only applied to the situation of having two similar explanations competing with each others.
