EDUC10057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Experience Sampling Method, Positive Psychology, Confirmation Bias

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Lecture 2 science foundations: paradigm shift as shift in focus, not in method, identify uses of the scientific method, discuss key research method topics (study design, measures, samples, limitations, apply lecture concepts to assignment 1. Paradigm shift as shift in focus, not in method. 1 positive article compared 21 negative articles (depression, etc. ) What is good about life is as genuine as what is bad and therefore deserves equal attention from psychologists. Human goodness and excellence are authentic as disease, disorder, and distress. Positive psychology: the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth to death and at all stops in between. Empirical: a source of knowledge acquired by means of observation or experimentation. How: create theories and hypotheses to test real-world phenomenon -> gather data to test how closely theory models reality. Random control trial experiments: one variable manipulated in one condition and not in the other. Best to develop cause and effect relationships (mindfulness vs. normal)

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