PSC 165 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deductive Reasoning, Lewis Terman, Psychopathy
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Karl popper disliked freud"s ideas because freud"s claims about whether someone"s. 1 right answer and another one that is close. Some stuff from lecture that isn"t in book. The ability of a claim to be tested and- possibly-refuted; defining feature of science. Pretty much means testable. childhood has affected what they"re like now (for example) are not falsifiable. Argued against statements that could not be falsified. He suggested that science can be distinguished from pseudoscience because scientific claims are capable of being falsified. the difficulties they"re having now, you can"t falsify that -- there"s no way to prove it right or wrong. Believed that nonscientific claims were a threat to the science of psychology. Was a historian of science, argued that science, as an activity conducted by humans, is a social activity. Suggested that there is no such thing as objective theory or data; all of science is informed by values explanation as they are revised.
