PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Normative Science, Freudian Slip, Falsifiability

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ron Sheese

Document Summary

Moghaddam"s great ideas: 19 great ideas, a great idea should: Influence perceptions: how people think about themselves and about the world, the concept of attachment is the second example discussed. Iq and mmpi (personality test: people think that they do more harm than good, stimulate research. Should stimulate people to look further and deeper. Falsifiability - "what evidence would be needed for an idea to be disproved" It"s not easy to prove that a theory is true - there is always the possibility of an exception. If there"s a theory, we should be able to stipulate the conditions that would show that it"s false: e. g. "the reason i was late this morning is because the bus broke down" - this is something we could check. Some things are not falsifiable; e. g. "the reason i was late was because god didn"t want me here on time: persist over time, e. g.