PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: A Priori And A Posteriori, External Validity
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What is research : studying what"s going on around you, note taking. Become an informed and critical consumer of information. We are scientist practitioners and we come about this information looking at behaviour norms, or anomalies: scientists first then practitioners. Tend to learn the most amount of information. A priori method: beliefs that are agreeable to reason, use logic, if then, a priori = before. Before you"ve tested for the fact, you came up with an a priori belief: beliefs in harmony with natural causes. Predict behaviour: prescribe pathologies, if you are acting like ____, i predict ____, i predict that if you don"t study you won"t do well . Explain behaviour: explain why, what causes behaviour, how often to occurs. Control behaviour: treatment, you want to control maladaptive behaviours, or behaviours that you, your friends, family, or society don"t want. You may be hurting other people or yourself. The empirical method of science in psychology assumes:
