PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Internal Consistency
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Ethics: before conducting an experiment, researchers must identify ethical considerations. How much harm is likely, are people being compensated for research, etc . Some circumstances will activate certain genes (e. g. nature vs. nurture) Thinking, even rational thinking, is always influenced by emotions. Thinking in terms of multiple causes changes how we understand many things. Trying to understand depression very quickly spins off into side stories. Depression is ultimately anything that emerges from the simultaneous reactions of all these systems. This means that you can affect depression with a bunch of different tools. Psychologists t ry to think in terms of multiple levels. Science is not just about facts we can never get in direct contact with the world. I t is about hypotheses, observations, and conclusions. Much of what we believe today will, in 50 years, seem largely irrelevant, maybe even silly. A single research study is not very meaningful. There are always flaws and holes in any study.
