PSYB01H3 Study Guide - Panic Disorder, Critical Reading, Construct Validity
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Chapter 1: uncommon sense scientific method and human reasoning. Psychology broadly defined as the scientific study of people, the mind and behaviour focus on questions about feelings of well-being. Schwartz: maximization scale: graduates with better jobs = grumpy maximizers, worse = happy satisfiers. Scientific method formal way of knowing that is exclusively reliant upon objective, empirical investigation rules, procedures, and techniques form a unified conceptual framework. Empiricism school of philosophy in which knowledge is gained through experience, observation, and experiment. Empirical information gained objectively from observation or experimentation. Data empirical evidence against which it is tested: measured and evaluated statistically. Empirical data different from anecdotal evidence impressions/opinions of one person not qualitative. Scientific method minimizes bias unfair practices that wrongly discriminate against others. Is can be answered by facts or empirical data; independent of social, cultural, political, and religious preference (scientific research)
