PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Scientific Method, Falsifiability, Pseudoscience
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* we should acknowledge that psychology is a vast discipline. * two unifying qualities allow us to group all these fields into the category of psychological science. 1, psychology involves the study of behaviour that, broadly defined, can include perceptions, thoughts and emotions. 2, psychologists employ the scientific method in their work. On these grounds, we can define psychology as the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. * the scientific method is a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. * a hypothesis is a testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured. * horoscope is very general, easy to find evidence. * pseudoscience - an idea that is presented as science but does not actually utilise basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure.
