PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jane Goodall, Central Tendency, Descriptive Statistics
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You always want to start a psychological/scientific process with a theory where they come up with an explanation for the data based on what they"ve seen. that. Good theories lead to hypotheses (predictions that can be empirically tested in a way might prove them to be incorrect) --> ex. evolution is a good" theory as it can be tested. The idea that good theories may lead to predictions which may ultimately falsify them is. What kind of data could someone show you, to falsify that creationism does not occur a prized notion in the scientific world. Jane goodall left england and went to gombe to live with a group of chimpanzees. Many scientists find theories by starting with observational studies; these can often be valuable, but also can have pros and cons in order to observe them so she could better understand their culture. * this basically means that the natural act of observation itself can change.
