PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Bit Error Rate, Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Offal
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The act of treating others or animals like people. The scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience. Way of learning about the world through collecting observations, proposing explanations for the observations, develoing theor ies to explain them and using the theories to make predictions. A testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured (ex: cigarette smoking causes cancer, exercise improv es memory ability) A hypothesis that can be confirmed or rejected (you do not prove a hypothesis) Ideas that are presented as science but do not actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure. An explanation for a broad range of observations that also generates new hypotheses and integrates numerous findings into a c oherent whole. Any scientific theory must be falsifiable - meaning they can be proved false with new evidence. Theories are not the same things as opinions or beliefs.
