PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Eugenics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Humanistic Psychology
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Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. The scientific method: scientific method: way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Hypotheses: making predictions: hypothesis: a testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured, pseudoscience: an idea that is presented as science but does not actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure. Theories: explaining phenomena: theory: an explanation for a broad range of observations that also generates new hypotheses and integrates numerous findings into a coherent whole. Theories = general principles/explanations of some aspect of the world. Hypotheses = specific predictions that can test the theory: any scientific theory must be falsifiable. Process helps to ensure that science is self-correcting. The biopsychosocial model: biopsychosocial model: a means of explaining behaviour as a product of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.
