PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Statistical Inference, Naturalistic Observation, Standard Deviation
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Two core beliefs of science: the universe operates according to certain natural laws, such laws are discoverable and testable. Scientific method relies upon a process of logical reasoning derived from philosophy. The first to emphasize that science should seek to minimize biases a personal beliefs or conventional wisdom that a particular thinker mistakenly accepts as board, basic truths. Argue that to avoid biases, science and philosophy should use controlled direct observations to generate broad conclusions. Over time such conclusions are combined to achieve non-biased truths about the laws of the universe. He had an idea that temperature enables us to preserve food. Psychologists begin the search for natural laws by making empirical (able to be tested in objective ways) or objectively testable, observations of mental processes and behaviours. Their observations in turn lead them to develop theories ideas about the laws that govern phenomena.