PSYA01H3 Final: PSYA01 Reading Notes
14 Dec 2017
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Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. Scientific method: a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions: dynamic interaction between hypothesis testing and the construction of theories. After tested hypotheses are either confirmed or rejected. Confirmed hypothesis are led to new and strengthened theories. Rejected hypotheses are revised and tested again, can potentially alter an existing theory. Scientific thinking and procedures revolve around the concepts of a hypothesis and a theory: guides the process + progress of the sciences. Falsifiable: the hypothesis is precise enough that it could be proven false: important because it will help future researchers if they want to replicate the study. Reproduce findings to determine if the results were due to chance. These requirements typically broken by people claiming to be scientific: ex.
