PSYCO105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Primitive Reflexes, Moro Reflex, Lev Vygotsky

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO105
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

What is science: science is a methodology. Science is a systematic procedure used to learn the truth (about us and about our world: can be proven with. Never rely on one single study: science is about updating the way we think the world works. We need to keep investigating to understand what we don"t understand: steps to a scientific process: Analyze data, draw tentative conclusions, and report the findings. Hindsight (after-the-fact understanding: problem: the main problem with relying solely on hindsight reasoning is that related past events can be explained in many creative, reasonable, and sometimes contradictory way. There is no sure way to determine which of the alterations is correct. Self-reports and reports by others: self report measures. Ask people to report on their own knowledge, beliefs, feelings, experience, or behaviour. Participants" self reports may be distorted by a social desirability bias.