NEUR 2001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Concurrent Validity, Pot Pie, Line Graph

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 2001
• Professor: Melissa Chee

Document Summary

Ideas are too familiar, so we accept them without question: problem: information may not be accurate, patterns may occur it may not cause ultimate outcome, we have not systematically evaluated our beliefs. Beliefs are hard to change because we believe it! Methods of acquiring knowledge: scientific: systematic approach to finding answers, starts with a set of observations, produces a general question/answer technique, may combine elements from non-scientific methods, better-quality answers, higher confidence in validity. Must have comprehensive knowledge of what is known to figure out what is not known. Empirical observation of environment: generalize a conclusion based on a few observations by inductive reasoning, bottom-up reasoning where a limited number of observations lead to ideas. If you see something unexpected, it may not mean an error. Informal or formal sources: textbook, news, magazine, documentaries, etc, twitter, advertisements, etc. Research ideas from experiences encountered in daily life.