[PSY BEH 11A] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 42 pages long Study Guide!

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I know because : it has always been resistant to external evidence (tenacity, they told me rely on particular venue for obtaining world news (authority, i know. Made decisions based on intuition: i thought. Empiricism is the only method that is self-correcting. Democritus, preceded the rationalist philosophy of socrates and plato. 2 types of experiments: within subject, between subject between subject, comparison, presence of control group, random assignment. : education income or income education. Which one precedes the other: ex. : ice cream sales improve at same time as crime increases confounding variable here something that influences both parts of correlation: it"s hot outside. Rationalism vs. empiricism empiricism: golden age of science 600-450 bc, thales father of science predicted total eclipse of sun determined the number of days in a year encouraged his students to improve on my work , anaximander.