PSYC 217 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Falsifiability, Measuring Instrument, Public Knowledge
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Stanovich chapter 1- psychology is alive and doing well (and doing fine among the sciences) Modern psych is diverse: not one theory that unifies, but many, cacioppo thinks psych is hub discipline= a science whose findings have unusually wide implications for other fields. Psych diff from other behavioural fields attempts to give the public 2 guarantees: 1. Conclusions about behaviour that it produces derive from scientific evidence: 2. Practical applications of psych derived from and tested by scientific methods. *defining feature is that it is data-based scientific study of behaviour. Not defined by use of particular experimental apparatus. *way of thinking about and observing the universe that leads to deep understanding of its workings. Systematic because structured: 2. production of public knowledge. Public= scientific knowledge does not exist at all until it has been submitted to the scientific community for criticism and empirical testing by others.
