PSYCH 301W Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pseudoscience, Testability, Wilhelm Wundt
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Behavioral research doing scientific studies of human and animal behavior. These 4 categories overlap and are the reason why scientists do behavioral research. The study of scientific psychology began in the late 19th century. It will help you learn about things related to your profession. It helps you become more familiar with topics of interest (to you) The more you know about research, the better and more effective you will be at consuming it. Established one of the first two psych labs in the world in 1875 at leipzig, germany. William james established the other (of the two) psych labs at the same time at harvard. Empiricism: relying on observations to draw conclusions. Public verification: findings of research must be able to be observed, replicated and verified by. Testability: the research question has to be able to be tested in some way. Someone gives a scientific idea or theory that violates the rules of the scientific approach.
