PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Theory-Theory, Heredity, Nerd
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Psychology involves the study of behavior and can include perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. Psychologists employ the scientific method to their work. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior, thought, and experience and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. Whether a field of study is a science, or a specific type of research is scientific, is based not on the subject but on the use of the scientific method. A person who carefully follows a system of observing, predicting, and testing is conducting science. The scientific method is a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, proposing explanations for the observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Scientific thinking and procedures revolve around the concepts of hypothesis and theory. Both guide the process and progress of the sciences.
