PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonio Damasio, James Vicary, Classical Conditioning
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Science is not about facts; it is about hypotheses, observations, probabilities and statistical analyses, and conclusions. Replication, convergence, and the peer review process. Replication:doing the same thing and getting the same result (repeat the experiment ) Converge: measuring the same thing from different perspectives. Peer review process: tells us what is more likely to be true. without peer review, it"s difficult to measure the quality. Scientific thinking occurs across two levels: the theoretical and the operational. Theoretical: what you think is happening in reality. Operational: the experimental, measurement level; what instrument or manipulation you use to reflect the conceptual variables. The problem is the gap between what we can observe and want to understand (observed reality vs. theory) Operationalization is the process of taking one"s pure" theoretical construct, and figuring out how to represent it through some sort of measurement device. Create sth. tangle to measure it. turn into sth you can observe.
