PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jenny Mccarthy, Descriptive Statistics, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

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Lecture 02: the importance of the scientific method. Military boot camp: (mentally + physically: used to straighten troubled youth, it was good until instructors began to abuse, crime rates arose to 60% (learned crimes from one another, truthiness saying/doing something that feels good. Jenny mccarthy a psychologist and mother of an autistic child believed vaccines are no good: theory proved her wrong yet she had a huge following from the upper-middle class educated people. Intellectual common sense/ collective wisdom of a culture i. e. : brush your teeth: we have lots of common sense theories, such as, how government should do their job, how to raise children in a proper manner. Such theories may contradict with one another, ex: opposite attract . Do theories help us predict the future? once a theory grabs a hold of us we tend to stick onto it for years (live by it)