PSYC 2300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Participant Observation, Falsifiability, Operational Definition

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2300
• Professor: Kendall Soucie

Document Summary

Many people when they read over studies they don"t read the whole article, but. When reading an article you need to question the types of research done. Introspection was one of the first ways for people to learn about psychology, but there were a lot of critics about this type of research and if it was valid. Social constructionism: su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) is as i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t as a (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)sus (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of (cid:862)(cid:396)ealit(cid:455)(cid:863) focuses on how people come to know the world, knowledge is socially produced information influenced by history and context, mostly qualitative. Empiricism: the psychological movement: emphasis on objectivity, only study that which we can observe, there is (cid:374)o (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863), just sti(cid:373)ulus a(cid:374)d (cid:396)espo(cid:374)se, black box psychology. Helps avoid biases rigorous methods that are testable and falsifiable. Falsifiable methods: methods that are just as able to disprove hypotheses and theories as they are to support them, the study needs to be set up so it can prove or disprove theories.