PSYC 337 Lecture 4: PSYC337 Lecture 4 - September 16th, 2015
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How you describe something determines how you view it. Our beliefs and how we see things - come from non-scientific sources. Next slide: commonsense belief, anecdotes, personal experience, statement of authority. Each have profound weaknesses in terms of what is going on i. e. 9/11. Vast majority of the world believes it was created by the cia Working in a hospital before times of neuroimaging. Predict l/r hemi, which lobe the tumor might be. The prof then did a statistical analysis of his success of predicting loci in the brain. Convinced the professionals that they needed his services. Semelweis study from previous lecture (puerperal fever, washing hands, hypothesis myopia) We need to use different methodology than these - to determine what we"re going to study and what we"re going to make of it. Using these 4 goals of science as a methodology for evidence. They are hierarchical i. e. this means you cannot measure something before you"re able to describe it.
