PSYC 397 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Auguste Comte

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Quiz #1: when two scientific theories clash over their ability to explain some phenomena there are two possible outcomes. One of these outcomes is when one theory is right and the other is wrong and the wrong theory is discarded. Imagine the author of a history of psychology text book (know as book x) devotes a single chapter to the great men of psychology . In contrast, the author of your textbook has sought to place psychology within larger social and historical patterns. Science describes the natural world as it is from no perspective, as if there were no people in it at all . The author"s statement summarizes the idea of the view from nowhere: the historian thomas kuhn proposed the concept of a paradigm among scientists. Paradigms can: provide scientists with assumptions about the nature of reality, provide a blueprint that will guide experimental procedures & influence & shape how scientists view the world.