PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Flashlight, Blind Experiment, Scholasticism
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When we do our data collection, we don"t want our biases sneak in. that is why we do double blind. Whenever you make a commitment to a certain method, you are not doing something else. Have a whole set of possibilities that you may not know of. How do we go to the next and do paradigm change and do something new. All these methods have to be seen in relationship to the lived world. Science attemps to bring a number of multiple analysis together. If you don"t have separate levels of analysis, you are not doing science. The professors get locked into mini levels of specialization. Aristotle: diff bw aristotle and plato plato : eastern view. Aristotle wasn"t dealing with entitites but modes of responding. Has three levels: on slide: soul for aristotle meant the mind , nutritive: body has needs: hunger, sexual etc. we are all animals. Then we have affect: has a wish attached to it.