PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jane Goodall, Falsifiability, Descriptive Statistics
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Finding answers begins by finding questions: joordens. Good theories lead to hypotheses predictions that can be empirically tested in a way that might prove them to be incorrect (i. e. falsifiable! Freud"s theories of human behaviour, and religious theories of existence, are often criticized for being un-falsifiable and, therefore, impossible to test: e. g. mind has 3 components: The id primitive mind ( the it wants desires satisfied immediately) clashes with social culture. The superego the image of a person in your mind of someone you would really like to be (ultimate version of you); person that everyone values and likes. The ego in between the id and the superego . Con the observer may influence the behaviour of the subject that is being observed: e. g. Variable to refer to anything that can take on multiple values : e. g. eye colour can have the values of green, blue, etc.
