PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Simple Explanation, Foodborne Illness, Binge Drinking
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It is not based on experience or intuition, but conducting systematic scientific research. It terms of being a research producer or consumer: Importance of being a consumer and be able to assess research; there is a lot of bad research out there. You have to know the components of good research: as a consumer you want to be a critical thinker. It"s not always true that articles in journals are always good and true. Importance of being a producer, learning how to conduct research. There is a step by step procedure how to conduct good scientific research. Article on page 17 of the textbook (discussion questions): Scientists are empiricist: they base their ideas on concrete observations: theories are sets of principles to explain something, harry harlow, challenging freud"s notion that we attach and we bond to the person that is going to feed us. This is called an experiment: we also have to form hypotheses.
