PSYB01H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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They make revisions to their own theories based on the data they discover: scientists only research falsifiable ideas ideas that can either be supported or refuted, peer review before a study is published in a scientific publication, it must be reviewed by other scientists who have expertise to carefully evaluate the research and recommend whether the research should be published. Goals of scientific research: describe behavior, predict behavior once is has been observed that 2 events are systematically related to one another, it becomes possible to make predictions and, therefore to anticipate events, determine the causes of behavior, covariation of cause and effect when the cause is present the effect occurs, when the cause is not present, the effect does not occur, temporal precedence there is a temporal order of events in which the causes precede the effects, elimination of alternative explanations, to explain behavior why the events and behavior occur.
