PSYCH354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Convenience Sampling, Casual Sex
4 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Likely to cause people real inconvenience than misunderstandings in other sciences. Scientists gather and evaluate information systematically and carefully, but no single technique may provide the indisputable answers they seek. A thoughtful understanding of relationships often requires us to combine information from many studies, evaluating diverse facts with judicious (careful) discernment (judgment) Is a recent invention that is new and recent, that you could actually talk to the scientists who have studied human intimacy. Because of its short history, it is less well understood. Very few people outside of colleges and universities appreciate the extraordinary strides this new discipline has made in the last 50 years. Relationships were pondered by philosophers and poets, many of their opinions were wrong. The first efforts of behavioral scientists to conduct empirical observations of real relationships were momentous developments. Relationship science is said to begun in the 1930s with a trickle of historically important studies of (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s friendships, and courtships and marriage.
