PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dogma, Empiricism, Observer-Expectancy Effect

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

Document Summary

Everything that happens to us is a result of the thoughts we choose to think. Scientists look at the relationships between the results observed and measured. Dogmatism is the belief that developing theories about bodily functions will find the cause of illness. Empiricism is the belief that observing symptoms from an ill person will find the cause of illness. For most of the past, ppl only trusted the authorities but only recently have they started to trust their own eyes and ears. Empiricism is the bases of the scientific method. Scientific method is the method by which we find the truth based on empirical evidence. Theory is the hypothetical explanation or answer about a natural occurring phenomenon: where we have an idea gather evidence related to that idea base the idea around the evidence. The rule of parsimony states that the simplest theory that supports all the evidence provided is the best one: credited to william ockham.