PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confirmation Bias, Emic And Etic, Psy
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Five main challenges: human behaviour is difficult to predict. Actions are multiply determined: psychological influences are rarely independent. Individuals differences among people: people influence one another. Reciprocal determinism: behaviour is shaped by culture. Emic(perspective of native) vs. etic (perspective of outsider) approaches. Tendency to seek evidence that supports our hypothesis. Tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even when evidence is contradictory. Using personal stories to support or prove a claim (not scientific, because not properly tested and is only a hypothesis) Using big meaningless words to appear smart and to convince. Real science brings the jargon down to a level so it"s easily understandable to people. If there is difficult jargon, there must be definition for it. Do not use sentences . this is proof that real scientists do not use this sentence. Instead use this demonstrates that this supports that When reviewed by scholars, it is edited, changed, revised and resubmitted.
