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March 27, 2007

Scientific Thinking in Psychology

Characteristics of science
Systematic empiricism
Publicly verifiable knowledge
Empirically solvable problems

The research process

Examples:
Bystander study
Caregiver study

Constructs and operational definitions

Psychology has an IMAGE PROBLEM


Freud/Skinner problem
Pseudoscience masquerading as psychology
Common sense
Self-help literature

Alternative ways to answer questions

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