PSY384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Speech Perception, Current Biology, Text Segmentation
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Answer: not true because you can"t test if something is wrong. Scientific theories must be falsifiable no scientific theory is ever proven to be correct in the absolute sense of the word. Theory: usually reserved for comprehensive explanation that is built up over time based on the previous experiments. Hypothesis usually used when scientists are just beginning to explore an area. Scientific method: observation theory prediction experiment revision theory, most of the time there is no right answer we just have evidence to prove certain things. Language-specific cries in newborns (figure 2. time waveform and narrow-band spectrograms mampe et al. , 2009, Current biology & figure 1 on back of last yrs photocopy notes. Is there a problem with this statement: maple et al. (2009) proved that language heard while still in the womb leads. French and german newborns to cry differently (both cry in a fashion that resembles their mother"s language: not proved just tested.
