PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Falsifiability, Sigmund Freud, Insite
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Learning objectives: create an example of a falsifiable hypothesis and explain why it is falsifiable. In a group, generate and test hypotheses to describe an unobservable entity. Identify examples of key course concepts in the what"s in the bag activity: appreciate the iterative process of scientific inquiry. Data never confirms/proves the hypothesis, it just supports it. There will always be exceptions to the hypothesis and only one to disprove the hypothesis. It"s important to take all the studies into account when making a hypothesis you cannot pick and choose data that support and reject data that goes against the hypothesis. Corbella: non-scientific ways of knowing, experience: she makes generalizations about everyone else based on her personal experience, she makes claims based off of logic and assumptions (both which are false). If the price has spiked, crime and housing demand would spike as well. What makes theories good: supported by data, testable, parsimonious.
