PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Johann Spurzheim, Gustav Fechner, Edward B. Titchener
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Psychology - the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social and environmental factors. Scientific method - a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Hypothesis - is a testable prediction about process that can be observed and measured. Pseudoscience - an idea that is presented as a science but does not actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure. Theory - an explanation of a broad range of observations that also generates new hypotheses and integrates numerous findings into coherent whole. General principles or explanations of some aspect of the world. Biopsychosocial model - means of explaining behaviour as a produce of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. Scientific literacy - the ability to understand, analyze, and apply scientific information. Empiricism - is a philosophical tenet that knowledge comes through experience.
