PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1 & 2: Critical Thinking, Falsifiability, Empiricism
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Key concepts: human behaviour is hard to understand and thus we often misinterpret them, scientific thinking involves hypotheses and theories. Is a philosophical belief that knowledge comes through experience: careful observation, not common sense or speculation, thinking and reasoning are just as important, determinism. Is the belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause and effect relationship: the debate comes up to free will vs. determinism, psychologists recognize that behaviour is determined by internal and external environments. Lecture 1. 2 psychology: the birth and early years: in early 1800"s, we thought of ourselves as biological machines so performing invasive surgery or an autopsy extremely disrespectful. Now, we show the duality of respect and spiritual need: pre wwi, germany established as a superpower. Key concepts: 5 characteristics of quality scientific research. It is based on measurements that are objective, valid and reliable. It can be generalized: uses techniques to reduce bias. Blind studies where the participant is clueless about the procedure.
