PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Waterboarding, Canadian Psychological Association, Pentagon
8 Apr 2016
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Much of what we do in psychology is in uenced by behaviourist ideas. Very strict set of rules, there is an obsession with following them. Science is experience becoming rational - john dewey. Experience and re ection- schools should teach people how to re ect on experience, science is a particularity rational way of doing that. How to be rational with your experience Chart from coolican - the research project. Psychological phenomenon are the important thing, research methods are just a tool to understand these phenomenon. Coolican and kelley quote from allport- p. 6. Evaluate science based on its ability to enhance our powers of predicting understanding and controlling human action this is better than common sense. Two different approaches to psych , empiricist- physics , chemistry vs. Empirical - go see and experience , observations. Rational - philosophy , allport calls for more phil. Majority of people in psychology are mechanistic , quantitative (stats)
