PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Occipital Lobe, Caffeine, Scientific Method
21 Feb 2015
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Psychology as a science (what makes something science ?) * observe, hypothesize, predict, test, modify hypothesis, re-test. * make your hypothesis as simple as possible. * make sure you can test your hypothesis. Data must be able to either support or contradict your hypothesis. Look for evidence from multiple studies with different methods. Whether something is a science or not does not depend on what you study, but on how you study it. (humans and human interactions) (cells and cellular interactions) Physics (molecules and molecular interactions) (particles, atoms and atomic interactions) In descartes" view, the physical body and the mental mind belong in separate realms. The mental mind is able to influence the physical body through the brain. Phineas gage"s case helped to convince people that the mind and brain were not in fact separate. The mind is in the brain and when the brain is damaged/injured/destroyed, so is the mind.
