PSY 102 Chapter 2: CPSY102 - Chapter 2.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Niusha Ghazban

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Chapter 2: research methods: safeguards against errors (tuesday, may 6 th 2014) ** all comments in red are additions to the slides posted. ** assignment due thursday may 15th before 11:59pm (9% of your final grade: assignments are uploaded through turnitin (online) Part 1: analyze the claims being made according to the three of 6 principles of scientific thinking. Providing evidence why the scenario follows or does not follow the principles. Part 2: analyze the claims according to 1 of the 3 warning signs related to pseudoscientific claims & discuss how it applies to the scenario (your textbook explains more claims but stick to one, example: psychobabble) Any papers longer than the word count will not be graded. Not looking for summaries or anything fancy. Separate title page is needed use the scenario title as the title of your. When submitting the assignment use the name: scenario a title (no need to add name, course code, date, etc. ) assignment.