PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.1: Pseudoscience, Critical Thinking, Psychopathy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Textbook: an introduction to psychological science canadian edition 2015. Psychology is a vast discipline: collection of disciplines composed of many overlapping elds of study. Study of behaviour including perceptions, thoughts, & emotions. Psychology is the study of behaviour, thoughts, & experiences, & how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, & environmental factors. Psychologists employ the scienti c method in their work: a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, & using the theories to make predictions. Hypothesis: testable prediction about processes that can be observed & measured. Pseudoscience: an idea that is presented as science but does not actually utilize basic principles of scienti c thinking or procedure. Theory: explanation for a broad range of observations that generates new hypotheses & integrates numerous ndings not a coherent whole. Theories can be self-correcting: updated with time. All theories are not equally plausible: there are good theories & not so good theories.