82:161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deep Sleep Therapy
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The power of a name: measurement and constructs constructs/ concepts as tools. Pre scienti c: cold hot energies, spirit forces - scienti c, heat energy o atomic forces o time, degrees. Evident that scienti c are better approximations of reality because they are more accurate. These illustrate care must be taken when creating and using constructs. Need these to be as clear as possible as they are used to make predictions. Two ways of de ning a construct; conceptually and operationally: conceptual de nition. Involves describing a construct in terms of what it is and what it isn"t and how it might relate to existing theories ! Occurs when an analytic or abstract relationship is treated as if it"s a concrete entity: eg luck, lindeman and saher (07) example - vitalistic thinking, intuitive and not educated by science. Another error when conceptually creating constructs is falsi ability lomoarcpsd.