PSYC 180 Chapter Notes -Rorschach Test, Illusory Correlation, Graphology
8 May 2012
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How to think straight about psychology textbook notes. Freud"s methods of investigation are unrepresentative of how modern psychs conduct their research today. Seeks problems that are empirically solvable and that yield testable theories. It aims for knowledge that is publicly verifiable. Two things that justify psychology as an independent discipline. Psychology studies the full range of human and nonhuman behaviour with the techniques of science. Applications that derive from this knowledge are scientifically based. Pseudoscientific belief anything goes in psych and there are no rational criteria for evaluating psych claims. Psychology attempts to give the public two guarantees. Conclusions about behaviour that it produces derive from scientific evidence. Practical applications of psychology have been derived from and tested by scientific methods. Results of the observation reveal something about the underlying nature of the world. Scientific observations are usually theory driven, they test different parts of the nature of the world.
