PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Random Assignment, Observer-Expectancy Effect
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Believes she cured herself of cancer by changing her thoughts. People who went to dogmatists tend to die a lot. Ideas about how and why things work they way they do. Hypothesis: a falsifiable prediction made by a theory. Dogmatism: tendency for people to cling their assumptions. Empiricism: the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation. Dogmatists (dogmatikos): who thought that the best way to understand illness was to develop theories about the body"s functions. Empiricists: who thought that the best way to understand illness was to observe sick people. Louise hay, bestselling authors of all time, believes that everything that happens to us (accident and disease) is a result of the thoughts we choose to think. Scientific method: a set of principles about the appropriate relationship between ideas and evidence. Eadweard muybridge, invented a technique for taking photographs in rapid succession, and his photos showed that when horses gallop, all four feet leave the ground.
