PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Edward B. Titchener, United States Academic Decathlon, Empiricism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Poppenk

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**charles darwin"s theory of evolution by natural selection. It was based on darwin"s observations of numerous species during his trips around the world, and explains biological diversity, the t between species and their environment, and how a species" appearance and behaviour may change over generations. **newton"s theory of gravity is the idea that all objects have some attractive force, the amount depending on the mass of the object. **science is interested in objective events that can be described precisely and observed repeatedly under similar circumstances. Theory: an idea or conceptual model that is designed to explain existing facts and make predictions about new facts which may be discovered. A hypothesis is a testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured, should be verifiable, and be able to be disproved. Verifiability is a theory, is verifiable if it can be tested by others.