PSYC 3125 Lecture 2: PSYC3125 Lecture 2

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3125
• Professor: Alexandra Rutherford

Document Summary

Objective is to have you engage in digital research. Systematic inquiry it is consistent, it has rules in how to proceed and how to inquire knowledge about the world. Objective means that other people who follow the same rule will have he same conclusions. Quantification you cannot be science without quantification- you can define things with math or numbers. How is it possible to think about psychological matter in this matter and what happens to subject matter when they are implied and what methods are derived using this approach. Mind-body dualism- the soul (mind) is distinct from the body. The mind cannot be reduced to materiality and mechanics. The body (including many mental functions), however, can be understood in naturalistic terms. He graveled with the notion of how you come up with the certain about the world. The only thing he couldn"t doubt was himself.