PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Central Tendency, Skewness, Internal Validity

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

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You believe that accurate knowledge is due to faith, or what your mother said, or what you"ve heard. You need to have a systematic way of looking at this or you will have a bias opinion. Its to subjective, you have to make your point of view objective. Scienti c set of rules on how u do research. To getting to know something, you are using your sense"s to understanding properties, theories are concurrent ideas. Behaviourism is a group idea (big umbrella) and you can test different things under the topic. Rule of parsimony - einstein"s theory of relativity can be video as a parsimonious theory, its a simple theory, elegant and its supposed to be simple and easy to explain. Work form a theory to build on knowledge. Theory: broder than hypothesis. e. g. i have a throw that many childhood behaviours are due to children imitating the behaviours of others.