Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1 : Little Albert Experiment, Abraham Maslow, Scoville Scale

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Empirical evidence-gained through experience and observation: why scienti c, minimize bias. Critical thinkers display the following attributes: willingness to engage at complex tasks. Sensitivity to the social realities in which the problems to be solved may be embedded. Understanding of the nature of uncertainty and probability. A distinction is sometimes made between basic research, the quest for knowledge purely for its own sake, and applied research, which is designed to solve speci c problems. The goals of basic research is to describe how people behave and to identify the factors that in uence or cause a particular type of behaviour ,can be carried out in laboratories or in real word settings. Applied research often uses principles discovered through basic research to solve practical problems. Levels of analysis: behaviour and its causes can be examined at; Environmental level (past and current physical and social environments to which we are exposed)