PETE 3025 Lecture : Lecture 6
Document Summary
Definition of framing; how the media chooses to portray what they cover. The media focuses attention on certain events and then places the event within a specific context. The havard implicit bias test; weapons iat is used to demonstrate the conscious-unconcious natural reactions that deal with scientific psycology. It asks the user to report their beliefs on the presented topics, while also asking for their background information to trace tendencies to those reactions. Non-scientific ways of knowing: authority; teacher-parents, firsthand experience/self-discovery (trust what our senses experience, secondhand experience, popularity, democracy; jury, tradition of tenacity (i believe x because i always believed x, common sense. Aspects of the scientific method: experimentation, room for doubt, creating a hypothesis, falsifiability, peer review process, open mind, occam"s razor, rule out alternative explanations. Tenants of the scientific method: research is public, the science is objective, empirical, systematic and cumulative, predictive, self-correcting.
