PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Falsifiability, Testability
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Learning objectives: apply your knowledge to generate and differentiate a hypotheses, theory, and prediction, compare and evaluate the strength of different scie theories and hypotheses, locate and identify critical components of an abstract. Generating theories and hypotheses from ideas and observations. Usually quite general and abstract, compared to a hypotheses. From a theory, you can explain a variety of different behaviours. Kiss model: keep it simple and strict. Theories that are more complex are harder to test and less falsifiable falsifiability. When you have a theory, make sure it"s something you can demonstrate. Easy to test out to see if it is not true. Freud"s unconscious theory: hard to falsify and test b/c of inability to access someone"s unconscious. The ability to demonstrate that it"s wrong. A good theory is one that is. Parsimony easy to falsify because it is easy to test. Do you have the means and methods of testing something.
