PSYC 1000 Chapter 1-20: FULL SET PSYC 1000 NOTES (PDF) (1) copy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Psychology the scienti c study of behavior, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social and environmental factors. Scienti c method a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions: the scienti c method involves a dynamic interaction between hypothesis testing and the construction of theories. Hypothesis (plural: hypotheses) a testable prediction about processes that can be observed or measured: hypothesis can be supported or rejected (you do not prove a hypothesis), and scienti c hypothesis must be testable. Pseudoscience an idea that is presented as science but does not actually utilize basic principles of scienti c thinking or procedure. Theory an explanation for a brad range of observations that also generates new hypotheses and integrates numerous ndings into a coherent whole.