PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psych, Falsifiability, Hawthorne Effect
15 Sep 2016
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Most basic universal human impulse may be struggle for understanding. Empiricism: science- measure stuff to get answers. Rationalism: philosophy- use rationalizing to get answers. Spiritualism: religion- look to spirit and religion to get answers. No espistimologic method is guaranteed to bring the absolute truth. Great ape studies of the turn of the century . Experimenter bias blind: if we are worried about the experimenter bias we keep experimenters. Blind to the true purpose of the study. Unusually (but not always) the bias is unconscious. They act the way they think they"re supposed to be doing. Placebo is an inactive substance given as medicine. We can gain some control see rest from slides. St mary"s of bethlehem (bedlam, england) ken kesey"s one flew over the cuckoo"s nest (1962) How might we treat our own experience. A ww11 sociological study of the morale of black american soldiers.
