PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Ethnic Cleansing, Biomedicine
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Chapter one notes: scientific method: embracing all branches of science, the applications of this approach vary from one research discipline to another. 4: may want to make a career of it learn about the limits of particular studies and methods, alternatives to the scientific method, method of tenacity: most primitive approach. Bound by tradition and involves clinging to claims or beliefs because they have been around for a while. Exclude anything that challenges their belief i. e. : earth is immobile and centre of universe (ptolemaic treatise in. 2nd century) seek out info that is consistent with their belief: method of authority: presumption that something is true because someone in a position of authority says it is. Similar to tenacity because you"re conforming: witch burning, holocaust, ethnic cleansing. Improvement: civilized society would cease to exist without willingness to obey laws. It entered into scientific study at the end of 19th century: wilhelm wundt built the first formal experimental laboratory.