PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Forgetting Curve, Wilhelm Wundt, Edward B. Titchener
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Science is a method for understanding how the universe works while protecting individuals from their propensity for awed and egocentric reasoning. The belief that independent events are somehow related. The belief that one event is related to the next one. Science is not about what you study but about how you study it. Even though something may look like another source of study, it can still be science. Having a question, a method used in order to answer that question, and then a de nitive answer. You need to have experiments that prove your ideas, and disprove things that other people are saying if it is false information. Claiming that you can y, but only when no one is watching. This is a plausible statement, although it is impossible to prove or generate evidence for this claim. When things cannot be veri ed, it is proven to be unscienti c.
