PSYC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Literature Review, Psycinfo, Conversion Therapy
8 Apr 2016
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Biases and emotions filter through, reducing our ability to understand a phenomenon. When things aren"t based on reason, they don"t usually work. Ex, choosing a multiple choice question at random when answer is not known. Authority: someone with specialized knowledge that can regulate and command. Ex, the media, parents, bosses, religious scriptures. When questioning an authority because i said so is an answer. An authority"s own biases may leak into what they teach. Scientific approach: no acceptance of information based on intuition or authority. Knowledge must instead be observed and tested in an unbiased, unprejudiced, rational manner. Replication: following the same approach will result in the same or highly similar results. If different results are yielded, the approach is likely a fluke/flawed and it was arrived at based on chance. Discovery: new approaches, new ideas, new theories necessary to contribute to the academic world.
