HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: John Bowlby, Humanistic Psychology, Normal Science
5 Dec 2020
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Logical positivism understand the essence of the scientific approach, reconcile practical implications of science witch methodological concerns formulate by philosophers. Demarcation criteria set of criteria that fully defines a concept. Verificationism a proposition can only be meaningful if it can be verified as true or false: observation, inductive reasoning: translate individual observations into general conclusions, verification: verify the general conclusion through other objective observations. Inductive reasoning does not guarantee true conclusions according to the rules of logic. Popper: falisficationism statements are scientific only when they can be falsified empirically: hypothetico-deductive method, observations, formulate an interpretation/theory of a phenomenon, use deductive reasoning to formulate testable predictions/hypotheses, test the hypothesis by means of an experiment. Theories can be falsified and the researcher is willing to do so. The more falsifiable a theory is, the better. Modifications are acceptable as long as they don"t make the theory less falsifiable. Ad hoc modifications modifications that make a theory less falsifiable.
