PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Phineas Gage, Anna O., Random Assignment
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Science involves detective work, science involves valid logic, luck often plays a role in science, science involves hypothesis testing. Hypothesis a formally stated expectation: facts general conclusions from observation psychological way rather than a logical way conclusions from observations. Designing research we need to take human nature into account: one important aspect of the human experience is that we think in a. The process consists of experiencing the world and then drawing general. Science a process of understanding the world through observation and research, which includes developing theories. The known facts about a particular subject are called scientific knowledge. Another aspect to science is doubt: to question our ideas and our research and ask whether factors other than the ones that we originally considered might have influenced our results. The methods of science science is showing us when we are wrong.
