PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anorexia Nervosa, Scientific Method, Scientific Theory
4 Sep 2018
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Scientific theory: explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world. 5 consider: human behaviour is multiply determined (caused by many factors, non-independence of factors i, variations among people in their thinking, emotion, personality, and behaviour: E. g. anorexia nervosa anxiety-proneness, compulsive exercise, perfectionism individual differences to everyone background. i. Therefore, making it difficult to determine explanations of behaviour that equally apply: reciprocal determinism:people influence each other, cultural differences i. E. g. , westerners tend to focus on the foreground, easterners tend to focus on the. Industrial organisation psychologists: apply the psychology, school psychologists b, forensic psychologists, research psychologists, developmental psychologists, personality psychologists, social psychologists, health psychologists i) 7: naive realism : belief that we see the world precisely as it is, science as a safegaurd against bias: protecting us from ourselves a, confirmation bias: tendency to seek out evidence that supports our hypotheses and deny, But i might be wrong :always suspectand ask question circumstance) theory is right c)
