PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Empiricism, Scientific Method, Critical Thinking

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1F90
• Professor: John Mitterer

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Lecture 3 and 4 reality & evidence. The most basic and universal human impulse may well be the struggle for understanding. How can i get answers" to my deepest questions. How should i be in this world. We try to understand, that"s what started all of our attempts to understand the world. Belief or theory dependent realism. It is extraordinarily difficult for humans to get behind or underneath the foundational assumptions of both their own individual and their culturally shared conceptual system. So we try and find something to believe and structure the rest of our life. It is very hard to get underneath of what we believe. Kahan, d. m. , 2011, cultural cognition of scientific consensus. Try to encounter psychology as a challenge to be explicitly reflective about your own implicit epistemology/ontology/ethics; as a way of living. To become a good scientist is to get past your own belief system.