CRCJ 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: School Violence, Main Source, Pseudoscience

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 3001
• Professor: Donna Mailloux

Document Summary

Size of sample (generalization: who is reporting (original source, replication, publish or perish, peer review. In a radio interview explained: what we found was that the student who had listened to the mozart sonata scored sig higher on the spatial temporal task. How do we know what we know/how do we know its accurate: tenacity 3, knowing by force of habit. I believe it is true because it has always been true: knowledge transferred from cultures or traditions. Flawed way of knowing as many beliefs contradictory and because it is difficult to verify: eg. Week 1: birds of a feather flock together vs. opposites attract, repeating ideas and searching for confirmation biases increases strength of the, authority/ faith 2,4 belief, knowledge gained by respected source. I believe it is true because an expert says it is true: truth depends on credibility. Saves time in evaluating evidence ourselves but often flawed source and flawed process: eg.