PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: American Psychologist, Classical Conditioning, Psyccritiques
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1. 1 - the science of psychology (p. 2-11: 3. Psychology involves the study of behaviour (including perceptions, thoughts, and emotions) Psychology as the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. Whether a field of study is a science, or a specific type of research is scientific, is based not on the subject, but on the use of the scientific method. The scientific method is a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Figure 1. 1 scientists use theories to make hypotheses. A hypothesis is a testable question about processes that can be observed and measured: you do not prove a hypothesis; it can be supported or rejected, a scientific hypothesis must be testable, 4. Pseudoscience, an idea that is presented as science but does not actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure.
