PSYC 2017 Chapter : PSYCH 2017 Test 1
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1: intro to scientific research: the whys and hows of the. But not always bc of selective attention: be healthy in your skepticism, rme 5 (research method experience): number and type questions and answer them. Go to the science/health section on a news site. Upload answered questions and url with pdf of article to source of where article is found. Healthy skepticism: they can be wrong or have different priorities (doctors smoke camels, dr. oz getting money for products that don"t really work: deduction/ rationalism: from what you know about a circumstance, you break down into smaller pieces. Rationalism allows us to look at things in a fair way. If we know everything about the system, we can. Knowledge from experience: problems: not everything can be perceived directly (gravity) and perception can be biased by expectation and past experience. We have to decipher what makes it true: scientific method: best of all of these things all in one.
