Chapter 1

Question 1

Why study psychology?

Answer 1

Deeper understanding
Recognition of Fads and Fashions
Avoid Repetition

Question 2

What is empirical observations?

Answer 2

The direct study of human nature

Question 3

What is Rationalism?

Answer 3

can be valid or invalid by rules of logic

Question 4

What is empiricism?

Answer 4

source of knowledge is sensory observation

Question 5

Who disagreed that scientific activity starts with empirical observation?

Answer 5

Karl Popper

Question 6

Who believe that observation was selective

Answer 6

Karl Popper

Question 7

Who believe science was criticism of myths?

Answer 7

Karl Popper

Question 8

What is a paradigms?

Answer 8

the belief, techniques, values shared by scientific community

Question 9

What does Kuhn consider normal science?

Answer 9

A normal science is mopping up observation of paradigm

Question 10

How do scientific paradigm change?

Answer 10

Anomalies .

They change by repeated observations, accepting that the current paradigms cannot explain