PS101 Study Guide - Edward B. Titchener, Social Neuroscience, Cultural Psychology
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The discipline concerned with behaviour and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism"s physical state, mental state, and external environment. Evidence gathered by careful observation, experimentation, or measurement. Empirical approach makes use of research evidence and challenges opinion. Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status. The ability and willingness to assess claims and make objective judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotion or anecdote. 8 critical thinking guidelines: ask questions: be willing to wonder, define your terms, examine the evidence, analyze assumptions and biases, avoid emotional reasoning, don"t oversimplify, consider other interpretations, tolerate uncertainty. Did not rely on empirical methods & evidence. Discredited theory that different brain areas account for specific personality traits. Can be read from bumps on the skull.
