PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Demand Characteristics, Participant Observation, Scientific Method

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Empiricism is the notion of how we know anything about the world and how we go about answering questions the knowledge that we have, comes through experience. Research participants provide us with the data to answer important questions about memory/earning/cognition. Strategies where there is data to back it up. Information has been gathered through systematic empirical research, and experiments that researchers have conducted. Intuition, gut feelings; implicit understanding how the person feels: authorities; believing something that an authority figure tells us, cultural consensus; since everyone seems to believe it, people just go with the flow and assume that its correct. Logic; in which we are not making empiricism observation. However, the best way to learn about the world is through the scientific method. Clever horse in the late 1800s/early 1900s that stomped out mathematical answers. He could spell out words, do complex math, name the days of week, do trivia, and simple arithmetic questions.