[PSYC 1F90] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (34 pages long)
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The most basic and universal struggle human impulse may be the struggle for understanding. Belief or theory dependant realism: you must believe something. Epistemology: empirical (science, rationalism (philosophy, spiritualism (religion) Empiricism: rooted in observation and common sense, evidence based, scientific research, theory building. Tuesday sept. 13, 2016: reinforced by critical thinking, hypothetic-deductive method. Scientism vs. science: scientific method : one mode of reaching knowledge, scientism : claim that science alone can render truth about the world and reality (e. g. atheism vs. agnosticism) The dog was then fished out and placed back on the scale and weighted the exact same. They concluded that there was no thing as a soul. For there to be a soul it would have had to have weighted something) Falsifiability: psychology accepts the principle of falsifiability, confirmation bias; fallacy of positive instances, theories cannot be proven true but they can be proven false.
