PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Gestalt Psychology, Scientific Literacy
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Psychology the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social, and environmental factors. Scientific method a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Hypothesis a testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured (can be supported or rejected, no need to prove, must be testable) Pseudoscience idea presented as science but doesn"t actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure. Theories are general principles/explanations of some aspect of the world including human behaviours, whereas hypotheses are specific predictions that can test the theory or specific parts of that theory. Scientific literacy the ability to understand, analyze and apply scientific information. Principle of parsimony the simplest of all competing explanations (the most parsimonious ) of a phenomenon should be the one we accept. Empiricism a philosophical tenet that knowledge comes through experience.
