PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 12.3: Libido, Ecological Validity, Clinical Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

It is better to consider it to be a collection of disciplines composed of many overlapping fields of study. Psychology: as a scientific study of behavior, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environment of factors. Scientific method: a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Hypothesis: a testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured. It can be supported or rejected, and must be testable. Pseudoscience: an idea that is presented of science but does not actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure. Theory: an explanation for a broad range of observations that also generates new. There is not thinking of opinions or beliefs. A measure of a good theory is not the number of people who believe it to be true. Hypotheses integrate numerous findings into a coherent whole.