PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Sigmund Freud, Biopsychosocial Model, Health Canada

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

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Once tested, hypothesis is either confirmed or rejected. Conformed hypotheses lead to new ones and strengthen theories. Rejected hypotheses are revised and tested again, and can potentially alter an existing theory: pseudoscience, an idea that is presented as science but does not actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure, theory. Module 1. 2: how psychology became a science: egyptian doctors noticed that damage to different brain areas led to vastly different impairments, empiricisms. Is a philosophical tenet that knowledge comes through experience: determinism. Is the belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause and effect relationships. In ancient greece, physician hippocrates (460-370 bce) de(cid:448)eloped the (cid:449)orld"s first perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455) classification scheme. Is a modern psychological perspective that focusses on processes such as memory, thinking, and language. Module 2. 1 the principles of scientific research: five characteristics of quality scientific research. It is based on measurements that are objective, valid and reliable.