PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Carl Wernicke, Empiricism, Paul Broca
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Psychology is a collection of disciplines composed of my overlapping fields of study. Two unifying qualities allow us to group these entire fields under psychological science: psychology involves the study of behaviour which can include perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. Psychologists employ the scientific method in their work. Therefore, we can now define psychology: as the scientific study of behaviour, though, and experience. The sm is a set of principles about the appropriate relationship between ideas and evidence. It is a way of learning about the world through observations and then developing theories to explain these observations: hypothesis: testable prediction or falsifiable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured. You can confirm or reject a hypothesis through scientific testing. It must be based on science or else it pseudoscience which refers to ideas that are presented as science but do not actually utilize basic principles of scientific thinking or procedure: theory: scientific explanation of a natural phenomenon.
