PSY 250 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Design Of Experiments, Face Validity, Experiment Iv

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 250
• Professor: Boomer Joseph

Document Summary

Authority: the government says don"t drive 100 miles/h, professor says there will be a quiz . Tenacity: things have been done this way , keep doing sth. Reason: taking shower and understand how water flows . Common sense, don"t sneeze onto sb"s face , many ppl agree this. Serendipity, randomly chosen one classroom and ended up by chance it was correct . Religion- huge source of knowledge, codes of conduct, template of how to live well, good psychology. Very different form other ways of knowing. Definition: a self-correcting way of knowing whereby ideas are shared and disconfirmed. The scientific method (framework of disconfirm ideas) No other way of knowing has such a powerful check on the validity of its own conclusions. Biology easy quantifiable clear conversation of cause and effect few factors, few unknowns (in experiments) chema+chemb=chemc. Direct measurements (2) soft sciences (not less scientific!) Psychology (3) psychological phenomena are messy and depend of many factors individual differences external variables.