PSYC 2360 Chapter Notes -Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media, Belmont Report, Skeptical Movement
14 Apr 2014
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The scientific approach: limitations of intuition and authority conception, mental health professionals must make decisions about treatment methods, assignments of clients to different types of facilities, medications, and testing procedures. Develop theories, argue that existing data support their theories, and conduct research that can increase our confidence that the theories are correct: third, science flourishes when there is an open system for the exchange of ideas. For example, when religion ask: should always ask whether the opinion can be tested scientifically or whether scientific evidence exists evidence. us to accept certain beliefs on faith. that relates to the opinion. There is a temporal order of events in which the cause of precedes the effect. Thus, we need to know that television viewing occurred first and aggression then followed. When the cause is present, the effect occurs; when the cause is not present, the effect does not occur. This is called covariation of the cause and effect.
