PSYC 2030 Lecture 1: Researchmethods-lect01
13 Jan 2017
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Hide the doll in the scale model. Look for it in the real room and vice versa. Psychology theorist study behaviour, cognition, emotions; claims or aspire to be scientific. Psychology is a way of thinking; help us get closer to how things work; why they think (what they think): (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g ratio(cid:374)al(cid:863) joha(cid:374) de(cid:449)e(cid:455), 1916, i(cid:374) (cid:449)h(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:449)e trust i(cid:374)tuitio(cid:374): intuition depends too much on myth, stereotypes, prejudice, and received but unchecked wisdom, when faced with a new problem, we tend to stick with what we know, rather than exploring alternative explanations. Science: not a subject but a way of thinking: science is a systematic way of thinking that leads to rational and testable explanations of what we observe in the world around us. Use experience and test it to other circumstances: these explanations are referred to as theories and we use scientific research to test out theories.
