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RM Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychology | Scientific behavior and physiological and cognitive processes that underlies behavior |
| Science | systemicatic study of the stucture and beavior of the physical and natural world through observation, knowledge and experiment |
| Scientific method | Cycle that continues, never ending, consists of observaiton, research, hypthesis, test experiment, analyze data and report |
| Science can involve empirical/ empiricism | systematic observation through the senses |
| Deduction | decreaing- general to specific general statements to reach a conclusion about specific examples |
| Induction | increasing- specific- general uses specific observations to form a conclusion about a general situation |
| Pseudoscience | NOT a science collection of related beliefs about the world mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method or having the status that scientic truths now have |
| What are the problem with testimonials | they are bias and individualized |
| Is psychology a science? | Yes |
| Why you should understand research methods | understand psychology, read research, evalate research, protect yourself from fakers, be a better thinker, scientifically literate , increase marketability, |
| Method of Intuition | Relying on guts, emotion on insticts to guie us. no guarentee its going to be right- think of work and carson |
| Method of authority | expert on topic to provide knowledge/information |
| Method of Rational | Uses logical reasoning- deduction and induction isnt always right |
| Empirical/empiricism | beliefs that are based on the observation through the senses |
| What is science | a body of knowelge particaully that which has resulted from the sustematic applicaiton of the scientific method |