PSYC 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Feyerabend, Tabula Rasa, Thomas Kuhn
14 Mar 2018
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Intuition: knowing without reasoning (there is no mechanism for separating correct/incorrect intuitions) Authority: facts stated from a respected source, used when you look at other researchers have done and the designs they used (often authority can be wrong) Rationalism: knowledge based on reason, used to drive hypothesis, identify outcomes that will determine about whether the hypothesis is right/wrong (rationalism is not sufficient by itself) Empiricism: knowledge based on experience, used often in science, facts that do not concur with experience are rejected (john locke, tabula rasa)- there is a possibility of researcher bias, research needs to be conducted in controlled environments. Induction: specific to general reasoning (when you try to generalize hypothesis or theories, example for when social loafing was generalized from a specific case) Deduction: general to specific reasoning (used in forming hypothesis from a theory, social loafing was used to conduct a study to realize ways to reduce social loafing - general theory to a specific conclusion)
