PSYC 222 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Peter Medawar, Falsifiability
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If those things do happen, then that"s a sign something is wrong with the theory. Theories under scientific discussion are those that have been verified to some extent and. Chapter 2: falsifiability: how to foil little green men in the head. Solvable problem = a testable theory; a testable theory = falsifiable. Falsifiable = have implications for actual events in the natural world. Falsifiability criterion states that for a theory to be useful, the predictions drawn from it must be specific. Theory = an interrelated set of concepts that is used to explain a body of data and to make predictions about the results of future experiments that do not make many predictions that are contradicted by the available data. Hypotheses = specific predictions that are derived from theories. Freudian theory can explain everything that is why it is scientifically useless.