PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nicotine, Random Assignment, Experiment

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Carina Fan

Document Summary

For most of recorded history going back to the greeks and even further, humans tried to understand the world. It"s only in the last 200 years that these mysteries have become open books to us: things like nature and structure of space and time. The constitution of matter, the many forms of energy, the nature of life itself with the discovery of dna and the decoding of human genome. Some of you are enrolled in the arts. If you look on the mcgill web page or mcgill course offerings bulletin, you"ll see that psychology is in the faculty of science, not in arts. Psychology is an empirical science like biology and physics and chemistry and that means something. And the evidence has to be in a certain form; the evidence has to be objective, it has to systematic, it has to be repeatable and the topic of the lecture on.