PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Internal Validity, Scientific Misconduct, Standard Deviation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2001
• Professor: Jordan Schoenherr

Document Summary

Reason and empiricism, theories (na ve and scientific: theories and data (marx, scientific theories and theory change, scientific integrity. Validity and reliability, & calibration and precision: stevens" data typology. Maybe just go over everything we"ve done so far as a refresher and focus on specific things that will be major topics for the final . Individuals research that we need to remember. (ex: ___"s research on ___) . Intuitions: our initial responses to stimuli, situations, etc. (learned or gut feelings) Authority: taking, at face value, info from individual respected within social framework. Reason: w/ assumption of set of premises ( facts"), using rules to determine what necessarily follows. Empiricism: using natural observation & controlled experiments to obtained data. Inference in theory development: *diagram in lecture slide* Deduction: inference that draws conclusion about specific event on basis of general concept: conclusion necessarily follows if structure of argument is sound & if premises true.