PSYC 201 Midterm: chapter 1 study questions

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201
• Professor: Polson David

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Select one: authority and logic, logic and intuition, authority and science, intuition and science. The problem with common sense as a way of knowing is. Select one: standards of common sense vary according to the culture, there"s no problem with common sense, it is not based on formal logic, it is a nonempirical method of knowing. When we state that science is empirical, we mean. Select one: that we feel it"s right in our guts. , that it can be observed directly, that someone we believe told us about it, that it is subject to logic. Select one: parsimony, progessive nature, self-correcting nature, concern with theory. The fact that the order in which something occurs is important in establishing a cause and effect relationship is called. Select one: temporal precedence, co-variation of cause and effect, a sequence effect, an order effect. A law may best be de ned as a statement that certain events.