PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radical Change, Thomas Kuhn, Opticks
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Can send cupchik your paper topic for approval. For the exams, find the most important people and what their contributions were. Historiography: writing the history of a discipline: facts are written by people of power. Usually written by rich white men, no by women, poc, indigenous, etc. Both physical and social phenomena are incorporated into psychology: theory: Ecological validity = our representation of an idea has meaning and representation in the real world. The goal of theory is to provide an account to these ideas: related to understanding and explanation, understanding = an intuitive understanding from the inside, try to explain causal ideas. Theories are heuristic and have predictive value. Theory is an ordered set of propositions. Changing meaning of operations and concepts: method: Nothing is really objective or objectively measured. If you measure something one way, you"re missing the way of measuring it another way.
