PSYC 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Clinical Psychology, Personalization, Social Animal

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Media reports can"t be trusted: football coaches believe that ice the kicker works because of personal experience, but statistically it doesn"t make any difference, a greek scholar saw the meteor and thought the order of nature changed as a result, but he did not conduct any experiment, people used to study the shape of people"s skulls to learn about their intelligence, but it is irrelevant. The scientific method is a more reliable alternative to address flaws in human thinking: objective observation, logically necessary to conclude, something that exists beyond opinion, can be replicated (like a survey, researchers do not conclude more than what"s logical, parsimonious, when there are several ways to predict the results with equal accuracy, choose the most efficient explanation, independent replication, one study must be replicable, skepticism, we should question how people know what they know, and how they know it, careful designs.