PSYC39H3 Lecture 1: PSYC39 - Lecture 1
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Lecture 1: why psychology is not a natural science & Four requirements of a science: candidate science studies phenomena reflecting natural order in the universe (natural law requirement) Imagine that you had a professor that had a hypothesis about distribution of automobiles across the us. One town seemed to have a representative demographic of the us population. Four separate teams film intersection between 2-3pm to measure the exact distribution of cars passing through and compile lists: results: inter-rater reliability r=1. 00. Answer: no: because there is no expectation of replicability (if they did this test a week later, they would not get the exact same results, e. g. Illustration of #2 requirement: newton"s second law of motion (f=mxa, mass, distance & time are fundamental and measurable elements to the newtonian world (can"t break it down anymore, acceleration is defined as change in speed/change in time. Speed is defined as change in distance/change in time.
