Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cobb County School District, Alan Baddeley, List Of Disney Comics By Carl Barks

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

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Introduction: marta kumasi discovered n400 most important and influential findings in the history of psycholinguistic. In everyday language, the words theory and hypothesis are used more or less interchangeably which can lead to misunderstandings about the enterprise of science. Just a theory: the public misconception about what scientists mean by theory provides ammunition for those who wish to attack science on religious grounds. It"s the hypothesis that we formulate which allows us to test the theory: a hypothesis states what we expect to observe in a particular situation if the theory is correct. We then make that observation, and if the observation matches our expectation, we say that have found support for the theory. You can"t prove it: you can never prove a theory true, but you can prove it false, the true test of a theory isn"t whether it leads to hypotheses that can be confirmed by observation.