PSYC 101 Lecture 2: Psych 101 Chapter 2- Research Methods
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We can know the truth by just feeling it. Easily accessible: all you have to do is just feel it. What you feel can be altered by previous experiences. May not be representative of all possible experiences. If you rely on experience only you can only get distorted information. Common sense/folk wisdom - knowledge or beliefs common to a society. Reduces the need to acquire info ourselves. If we listen to someone and believe them we don"t have to test it ourselves. Lowers amount of effort we need to do ourselves. May rely on authority"s intuition and experiences. Can be inspired by other ways of knowing. Scienti c methods - a procedure for determining the truth through empirical evidence. Your little cousin tony played a lot of gta. A few years later, he was arrested for starting a. You"ve heard the saying monkey see, monkey do .
