PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Empirical Evidence, Determinism, Open Data Protocol
8 Sep 2016
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Chapter 1 the scientific study of personality. Theories must enable us to predict, understand, and control human behaviour. Institutionalized skepticism a way of suspending belief until the facts are clear. Determinism a cardinal belief in science that the universe and all the things and organisms within it act in lawful and orderly ways. Psychic energy the energy behind thought, feeling, and action. Discoverability the assumption that the laws controlling the events we study are potentially discoverable. Scientific method a set of methods by which we can submit hypotheses to the test of sense experience to determine whether they are true or false (empirical test) We can set questions and devise procedures in such a way as to generate answers in the form of observations that may be checked and repeated. Potential human benefits the assumption that scientific knowledge has potential benefits. Logical inference science unites induction with deduction. Induction observation and accumulation of sense experience.
