PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wilhelm Wundt, Humanistic Psychology, Scientific Literacy

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Psychology: is the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. Scientific method: is a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using theories to make predictions: hypothesis: is a testable prediction about process that can be observed and measured. They are not proved, they are supported or rejected. Pseudoscience: is an idea that is presented as science but does not actually utilize scientific thinking or procedure: ex: astrology. Theory: is an explanation for a broad range of observations that generates a new hypotheses and integrates several findings into a coherent whole: theories should be falsifiable: proved false with new evidence and proved true with new evidence. Difference btw hypothesis and theory: theories are general explanations, hypothesis are specific predictions that can test the theory: ex: theory of evolution have specific hypotheses that prove it.