Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Ad Hominem

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Patrick Brown

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Lecture 1: introduction - psychology as a science. 1:35 pm office hours: wednesday 1:30-3:30 @ ssc 7328 if you miss more than 8 tutorials you fail the course. 1/4 questions will be based on stancovich and lecture no questions on the labs in particular lab component is worth 50% Peer assisted learning centre - wss 4139 - mon-fri 10:30-3:30. Individual counselling for learning skills - 519 661 2183. Outline why science? intellectual authority the scientist as skeptic. Ad hominem argument: the people who disagree with you are bad people values of the classroom. Why science there is a true state of affairs in the world science allows us to know the true state of affairs there"s a lot of things we don"t know but also a lot of things we do know. 2. there is a true state of affairs in the world we can learn that true state by examining the world.