PSY100H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 144 pages long!)

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Psychologists believe that scientific methods and be used in the behavioural domain to understand and improve the world. Scientifically minded people try to figure out things through testing/observation. The careful observation of the world with the aim to better understand it. Provide the basic data that allow scientists to organize information about the world. Approaches to inquiry tied to actual measurement and observation. Systematic observation is the core of science- done so in a very organized way i. Observation leads to hypotheses we can test i. State these hypotheses and theories in a way that can be tested. People want to form their own opinions and debate conclusions. Scientists are skeptical and have open discussions about theories. An aspect of scientific progress is furthering earlier proved knowledge. Self-report problems - they might lie about it. Psychologists are limited in the way they can test behaviour, other methods have been found: Peer report measures: compare and contrast self-reported measures.