PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: You Can Heal Your Life, Demand Characteristics, Frequency Distribution
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Louise hay: you can heal your life, believes that everything that happens to us is a result of the thoughts we choose to think. Ancient greeks had to choose between two doctors. Dogmatists, those who thought the best way to understand illness was develop theories about the body"s functions, or empiricists who thought the best way was to observe sick people. Dogmatism: the tendency for people to cling to their assumptions. Empiricism: the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation. Empiricism is the essential element of the scientific method: a set of principles about the appropriate relationship between ideas and evidence. When we have an idea about something, we should gather empirical evidence relevant to that idea and then modify the idea to fit with the evidence. Theory: hypothetical explanation of a natural phenomenon. Rule of parsimony: when developing a theory, start out with the simplest one: only complicate things if you must.