Psychology 2820E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, Confirmation Bias

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2820E
• Professor: Riley Hinson

Document Summary

Psychology hopes to teach us behaviors that common sense cannot grasp: uses scientific method to produce quantitative data we then use this data to generate qualitative data. Photo voice: giving a voice to an individual by allowing them to take a picture (qualitative data) Psychology was not considered a science since it studied unobservable phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374)"s. (etc, cognition, intelligence, affection) (cid:862)good data(cid:863) requirements: (ca(cid:373)e fro(cid:373) (cid:862)positive move(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) august. Compte: must derive from publicly verifiable, objective observations, its results must be replicable, its explanations must not incorporate metaphysical statements about the nature of events, one of its goals should be the attainment of practical knowledge. Qualitati(cid:448)e (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h does(cid:374)"t (cid:396)eally follo(cid:449) these (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of good data: some studies vary too much. Ex: someone with schizophrenia may have very different experiences than someone else with the same degree of schizo due to very different lives. You can use unobservable constructs only if you tie it to an observable event.