PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Knowledge, Outline Of Physical Science, Determinism
20 Feb 2018
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Knowledge of scientific methods - teaches about each one of the above questions. It allows you to identify what is relevant, going to give you tools about how you reason about the elements of this study. A commitment to test knowledge through observation and if possible experimentation . Experminatation - secondary role because this is not always possible. Originally developed to study the physical world. Things have causes, when things happen in the world, there are reasons. We can uncover these causes with some degree of confidence. We have better understanding of why and how. Psyc world is different than the physic world in a lot of different ways. What we want to test is not observable. Determinism - very complex for psych phenomenon. Maybe they grew up in a messy household. Latin for on the word of no one which means, don"t believe things just because people say it. Science was created to overcome human biases.
