PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: List Of Fables Characters, David Buss, Kinsey Scale
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What is science? science it is not defined by what it studies but by how it is studied. Four canons of science: determinism: the universe is orderly- all events have meaningful, systematic causes. Theories: statement about the causal relation between two or more variables. When facing two competing theories that do an equally good job of explaining a set of empirical: testability: scientific theories should be testable (confirmable or disconfirmable) using. Falsifiability: it must be possible, in principle, to make an observation that should show currently available research techniques the hypothesis/theory to be false. Operational definitions: definitions of theoretical constructs that are stated in terms of concrete, observable procedures. Sometimes variables are well defined and easy to measure. Some variables are not well-defined and cannot be directly observed. Constructs; internal attributes or characteristics that cannot be directly observed but are useful for describing and explaining behaviour. -> self-report measure: simple asking the person: how intoxicated are you? .
