PSYCO105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Aphasia, Functional Fixedness, Mental Age
23 Apr 2017
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Scientist determine whether any studies, theories, and other information that might help answer their question already exist. Then form a hypothesis- a specific prediction about some phenomenon that often takes the form of an if-then statement. Step 4: analyze data, draw tentative conclusions, and report findings. Researchers analyze the information (data) they collect, draw conclusions, and report. Scientists build a body of knowledge about the topic in question. As evidence mounts, they try and build theories- a set of formal statements that explains how and why certain events are related to one another (broader than hypotheses and lawful to relations between behaviours and their causes) Two approaches to understanding behaviour: hindsight (after-the-fact understanding): based on common sense and folk knowledge to understand behaviour. Main problem is that related past events can be explained in many creative, reasonable, and sometimes contradictory ways: understanding through prediction, control, and theory building: test their understanding of what causes what more directly.
