PSYC 201W Lecture 1: Lecture 1 slides.pdf
4 Dec 2014
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Psyc 201w: assignment of grades, clicker quizzes, final exam, clickers, writing assignments, research participation, the research project, lab schedule and reading schedule. Research process: to learn the research process, provides a foundation for other courses, to become a critical consumer of information, to develop critical and analytic thinking, learn to critically read a research article, necessary for most graduate programs. Scientific methods: intuition knowing without reasoning, authority facts stated from a respected source, rationalism knowledge from reasoning, empiricism knowledge from experience, induction specific to general reasoning, deduction general to specific reasoning, hypothesis testing. Meta analysis: a quantitative technique for describing the relationship between variables across multiple studies, to summarize and integrate existing data, to guide new research, continuous interaction between theory and empirical observation. Pseudoscience: description, explanation, prediction, control, an approach that claims to be scientific, but in fact violates many tenets of science, attempted association with science made in an attempt to gain legitimacy, examples.
