PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Behavioral Medicine, Constipation

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: All

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How do psychologists ask and answer questions: the scientific method is the process of testing our ideas about the world by, setting up situations that test our ideas, making careful, organized observations, analyzing whether the data fits with our ideas, if the data doesn"t fit our ideas, then we modify our ideas, and test again, the scientific method, theory, a theory, in the language of science, is a set of principles, built on observations and other verifiable facts, that explains some phenomenon and predicts its future behavior. (ex. All adhd symptoms are a reaction to eating sugar. : hypothesis, a hypothesis is a testable prediction consistent with our theory. ( testable means that the hypothesis is stated in a way that we could make observations to find out if it is true. ) (what would be a prediction from the all adhd is about sugar theory?)