PSYC 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Psychological Association
30 Mar 2017
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Skepticism: not accepting a fact as true without challenging it. Humility: seeking truth rather than trying to be right, need to accept being wrong. Research ideas come from observations of something in the world. Hindsight (after-the-fact): reasoning after conclusion has been drawn, knew it all along. Limitation: past events can be explained in multiple ways. Strength: provides ideas for further scientific study. 1: form a hypothesis, a scientific prediction (if then because, test hypothesis by conducting research, analyze data, draw tentative conclusions, report findings, repeat above steps to build a body of knowledge. Theory: explains how and why certain events are related to one another. Scientific method: process of testing our ideas about the world by Setting up situations that test our ideas. Analyzing if data fits with our ideas. The law of parsimony: the simple theory is better if it explains a phenomenon equally well. Right to decline participation and withdraw at any time without penalty.
