PSYC 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
2 Sep 2015
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Methods of acquiring knowledge: intuition knowing without reasoning, authority facts stated from a respected source [used to design experiment, rationalism knowledge from reasoning / [problem: if only rely on this, different people can comes with different results explanation: empiricism knowledge from experience [but maybe wrong] Scientific methods: induction specific to general reasoning [observation theory] [e. g. bystander, deduction general to specific reasoning [theory observation, hypothesis testing. Criticism of hypothesis testing: naturalism science should be studied and evaluated empirically. What is science: multiple methods and practices used to develop secure scientific knowledge, scientists must. Question current solutions that are not working. Creatively and systematically come up with new solutions. Subject these new solutions to empirical testing peer-reviewed; replication. Basic assumptions underlying scientific research: uniformity or regularity in nature. Determinism the belief that mental process are fully caused by prior natural factors. Probabilistic causes a weaker form of determinism: reality in nature.
