PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes -Sigmund Freud, Behaviorism, Anthropomorphism
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Anthropomorphism is treating objects or animal as people. First, psyc involves the study of behabiour that broadly defined can incude perceptions thoughts and emotions. Second, psycologists employ the scientific method in their work. We can define psychology as the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience. Psycologists share with other sciences and ascientists a common set of methods and perspepctives for understanding the world. A person who conducts a system of observing, predicting and testing is conducting science. The scientific method is a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, proposing explanations for the observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. The scientific method- scienists use theories to generate hypotheses. Confirmed hypotheses lead to new ones and strengthen theories. Rejected hypotheses are revised and tested again, and can potentially alter an existing theory. Hypothesis and theories are both crucial frameworks for scientists. Both guide the process and progress of the sciences.
