PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carl Stumpf, Edward B. Titchener, Facilitated Communication
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense huxley (1902) Blindfold horse while asking questions: hans was conditioned to pick up visual cues of the person asking the questions. Stereotype movements and behavior (e. g. repetitive rocking) Delays in language acquisition: most autistic people have intelligent minds but bad bodies, their body will not do what their mind wants but with a little help using facilitated communication it might. Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense: it requires is to override automatic, effortless, and intuitive modes of thinking with more controlled, effortful and reflective modes of thinking. Purpose of empirical and experimental research: 1. Methodology: providing a description of what the dependent and independent measures that are being testing are: 2. Measurement: providing a mathematical description of the strength of the relationship. Basic units that define each level of scientific discourse.