PSYC-212 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pseudoscience, Live Coding, 2Degrees

• School: MacEwan University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC-212
• Professor: Shannon Digweed

Document Summary

Answers: their state(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e falsified, the(cid:455) have la(cid:272)k of self-correction, exaggerated claims, and overreliance on anecdotes, universalism: observations are structured and evaluated using accepted methods. Communality: methods and results are to be shared openly so others can replicate the data. Organized skepticism: all new evidence and theories should be evaluated based on scientific merit: describing behaviour, predicting behaviour, determining the causes of behaviour, and. Explaining behaviour: covariation of cause and effect: when the cause is present, the effect occurs; when the cause is not present, the cause does not occur. Alternative explanation: nothing other can the causal variable could be responsible for the observed effect: basic: attempts to answer fundamental questions about the nature of behaviour. Applied: conducted to address practical problems and potential solutions: a system of logical ideas that are proposed to explain a phenomenon and its relationship to other phenomena. Negative linear: increase in one, decrease in the other.