PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Validity, Nonanal, Scientific Literacy
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Rationalism: the view that knowledge if produced by reasoning using logical argumentation and debate. Empiricism: opposite view, the view that knowledge is produced by using the senses to observe and experience the world. Integrating the two together makes a stronger and self-correcting process: neither is perfect, put the two together, to create a self-correcting method. Important about science, b/c science is the best self-correcting way of getting knowledge human ever invented. Between theoretical debate and experimental competition, correct itself and improve. What other people are doing science read and understand scientific literature good citizenship science plays significant role. Make prediction called hypotheses about variables (whatever we are measuring, can take on different values, e. g. : heights, weights, etc. ) Hypothesis: a testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured: testable: the hypothesis can be put into experiment & we set up the experiment so that it is possible for our prediction to be wrong.
