PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: University Of Calgary, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
2 Apr 2016
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The universe operates according to certain natural laws. Deducive reasoning: using general principles to apply to a speciic situaion. Inducive reasoning: using speciic examples to make general conclusions. Hypotheico deducive: hypothesis observaion hypothesis supported or not supported. Psychology using the scieniic method to study human behaviour and mental processes. Pseudopsychology no use of the scieniic method when commening on human behaviour and mental processes. People associate psychology with pseudopsychology which confuses them. Observaions quesion hypothesis predicion test: experiment or addiional observaion. A general conclusion that is based on evidence and is derived from tesing hypothesis. General way of explaining a set of phenomenon. Prioriize smaller tasks irst and then more important ones. Dependent variable (dv) the variable that you measure (or the variable that is changed by the. Idenify the independent and dependent variables in each of the following examples:
