PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Demand Characteristics, Nuremberg, Empirical Research
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Psychology chapter 2 notes: empiricism: how to know stuff, dogmatism the tendency for people to cling to their assumptions, empiricism the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation, the scientific method, scientific method a set of principles about the appropriate relationship between ideas and evidence. Keyword: s. m. suggests develop theories, derive hypotheses, test them by gathering evidence, and use the evidence to modify theories, the art of looking, observation: discovering what people do, observe use one"s senses to learn about the properties of an event or an object. unstable. 3 things that make it difficult: complexity: brain is super complicated, variability: people are varied, no two individuals ever do, say, think or feel exactly the same thing under exactly the same circumstances, reactivity: people"s reactions differ on according to whether they are being observed or not, two methods developed to meet the challenges:
