PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radical Environmentalism, Scientific Method, Baby Steps
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Tuesday, september 13, 2012 introspection was not considered to be necessary. They were just verbal labels giv- en to things that didn"t really exist or were unimportant: watson was a radical environmentalist, the whole nature vs. nurture debate (another topic from chapter 1): Four ways of knowing about the world observation is the heart of any scientific method. What is science: science isn"t defined by what is being studied it"s defined by how it"s being studied, the method that you"re using to investigate whatever topic it is you"re investigating. Four cannons of science / fundamental principle / science does not really exist without these things: Determinism the idea that the universe isn"t random that things can be predicted there are orderly systematic causes. 4. without it theories don"t make any sense theories do not work when things are happening at random we need things to be systematic and orderly in order for any theory to serve its purpose theories:
