PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operationalization, School, Scientific Method
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Physiology/medicine and philosophy started to merge into psychology the bringing together the philosophical questioning and the physiological approach to the human being. As a science, we want to take the rigor of scientific methodology and apply it to these questions. Science is not about facts; it"s about hypothesis, observations, probabilities & statistical analyses, and conclusions. It involves processes that are virtually all psychological (thinking, imagining, questioning, creating, observing, communicating, etc. ) The scientific method isn"t an objective, infallible approach to the truth it"s a way of helping ourselves make increasingly good guesses, observe and test those guesses and then draw conclusions from that. In a sense, we can never make objective contact with reality it will always be interpreted through our biological representation. We rely on a few things : replication you conduct a study and find something; and then someone else takes the exact same methods, approach, and try and do the exact same thing.
