PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confounding, Microsoft Onenote, Inductive Reasoning
29 Aug 2016
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Intelligence is a construct, an idea that is useful to describe concepts in a general way but dif cult to measure in practice. The scienti c method: a formal way of asking and answering questions about human behaviour to get the most accurate, objective information possible. Levels of analysis approach: different equations based on different levels of analysis may be asked. The scienti c method avoids presumptions of background knowledge. Parsimony: we choose the simpler version of two equally good theories: an equally good job of accounting the two theories. Natural order: a behaviour is a re ection of the same mechanism in people all over the world. Generalizability: related to the natural order: generalize that the same phenomena happening in the lab is the same as the phenomena happening around the world. Conservatism: support the current explanation until new facts accumulate that the current explanation can"t deal with.
