PSYC 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Evolutionary Psychology, Dependent And Independent Variables, Demand Characteristics
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History of science and sexuality: scientific pursuits often persecuted. Galileo fo(cid:396)(cid:272)ed to pu(cid:271)li(cid:272)l(cid:455) (cid:396)e(cid:272)a(cid:374)t suppo(cid:396)t of cope(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:272)us" theo(cid:396)(cid:455) o(cid:396) (cid:271)e excommunicated. Books banned and house arrest until his death (1642: the enlightenment (18th century) Age of reason: logic and research applied to learn and answer problems. Dissemination of ideas: printing companies and salons/ coffee houses. In the mid 1900s, researchers such as kinsey and masters and johnson begun the systematic inquiry of human sexuality. However there intellectual pursuits were still stigmatized and looked down on: scientific ideals. Answer the empirical questions through systematic observation. Objectivity: the removal of personal bias from the process for answering a question. Falsifiability: data collection can lead to a disconfirmation for the hypothesis. Skepticism: not blindly accepting claims, evaluation the evidence for oneself. Surveys and sampling: survey- where you want to ask people questions about their lives. Make inference from those results to generalize about the population: random sampling.
