PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Rudolf Carnap, Cyril Burt, Percy Williams Bridgman
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In the early part of the 20th century a new philosophy of science emerged, called logical positivism , this approach appeared to justify a behaviourist methodology, and to cast doubt on. The development of statistical methods, which came to be widely accepted as providing the rules for designing experiments and understanding their results. The problem of ethics in research was made very noticeable because of possible cases of scientific fraud in psychology. The relation between methods for experimental and non-experimental data was also a topic of serious concern. These research methods have not existed since the beginning of time, but they do have a definite history. Psychology depends on particular investigative practices that generate products that count as scientific knowledge . Some specific psychological practitioners are: titchener was known for the investigative practice called introspection , watson was known for the investigative practice called methodological behaviourism .
