GERO 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Graphology, Inductive Reasoning, Confirmation Bias
12 Aug 2020
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Gerontology is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to understand and ultimately improve the processes and experiences of aging through research in biology, social science, health science, and technology, among others. Gerontology is much broader that geriatrics ( ), which focuses on medical aspects of aging. Explain heuristics and how they lead to beliefs and behaviours that are often counter to scientific evidence. Identify and differentiate among the three criteria for claiming causation. Identify the sources of funds that pay for research. Define the term systematic empiricism" in the context of research. Compare and contrast the scientific approach to knowledge creation (or learning) with the approach of pseudoscience and bad science. Discuss the importance of skepticism in the post-truth world. Textbook chapter 1 sections features of science (links to an external site. ), science versus pseudoscience (links to an external site. ), science and common sense (links to an external site.
