PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Psychopharmacology, Unification Church, John Wiley & Sons
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Lecture 1 introduction to psychology as a science. Why psychology is not a natural science: implications for forensic psychology. Going into more detail and to illustrate these four requirements: Say you have a study where you wanted to look at the demographics in the typical distribution of automobile types and years in a particular area. The method used is to look at the distribution of the cars that pass through a intersection between 2-3pm and compile a list. The answer is no because there is no law of nature dictating the owner of the relative car that drives through that intersection at that time. For example: the concept of motion brought out by newton can be described with this reductionistic language. Given the equation f = m x a to describe law of motion, we can explain it by saying. Acceleration is defined as ^speed/^time, speed is defined as ^distance/^time,
