PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nocebo, Facilitated Communication, Tooth Brushing
9 Dec 2013
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Chances for bonus marks: brief summaries will be sent out after this class for different studies provided by the phd students at lakehead. We need to know because without the tools of science there is nothing to psychology. Without research designs, even intelligent and well-educated people can be fooled. The scientific method is a set of tools that helps us avoid being tricked by our biases - we all think we are smarter than we are. We"ll learn what these tools are and how we can use them to evaluate psychological claims. The question is not if something works at all but if it works better than another of its kind in the same circumstance. Often our impressions are wrong - human error. We need rigorous research methods to find out whether a technique really works. Lazy thinkers - easier to make quicker assumptions.
