PSY341H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Developmental Psychopathology, Stress Management, Developmental Psychology
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Kuhn writing showed science is not completely objective. To study & understand phenomena scientist adopt a perspective a view/ approach or cognitive set: when perspective shared by investigators = paradigm assumptions and concepts and ways to evaluate these. Benefit to adopt perspective make sense of complex world, help guide the question ask. Select for investigation, what to observe & how to observe it , how to interpret it & make sense of info we collect ( influence how problem approached, investigated & interpreted) Disadvantages sets some limitations preclude other question, don"t observe something else, when choose particular methods to investigate one phenomena can miss other phenomena, limit way we interpret & think about new info. Theory is formal, integrated set of principles or proposition that explains phenomena it provides can be tested highly valvued. Microtheories apply to circumscribed areas e. g. focus on emotions, self-regulation, brain functioning, higher level cognition.
