PSYC 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Parapsychology

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: All

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Research methods: systematic observation: the scientific method is a system of rules for investigation, this involves generating a hypothesis and testing it, for observations to be effective, we need to know, what we are looking for, whom we are going to observe, how the observations are going to be made (where, in what form the observations are going to be recorded, research must be unbiased and reliable. What is a science: two core beliefs of science, the universe operates according to certain natural laws, such laws are discoverable and testable, the scientific method uses, inductive (small to big) and deductive (big to small) reasoning, hypothetico deductive reasoning (begin with an educated guess about how the world works, then set about designing small controlled observations to support or invalidate that hypothesis, sir frances bacon questioned deductive reasoning because it was subjective to biases, inductive reasoning uses empirical (testable) observations, karl popper, hypotheses.