Psychology 2800E Chapter Notes - Chapter White 1: Intellectual Freedom, Validity, Scientific Method

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Patrick Brown

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Ways of knowing behaviour: every day we use several methods to learn about behaviour, can divide these methods into two categories: empirical and non-empirical. Logic: critical when drawing conclusions about the world, but too has limitations. Logic can tell us that a statement is false if it draws an improper conclusion: a statement can be logically valid, but still not true, because it assumes something to be the case that is not. Important to science but it cannot substitute for making an observation: there is no substitution for empirical evidence. Involves the collection of data: making informed observations about the world, two categories are intuition and scientific. Layperson ideas of common se(cid:374)se differ (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) (cid:271)a(cid:272)kgrou(cid:374)ds. Science: science is a way of obtaining knowledge by means of objective observations, there is not a single scientific method, there are many.