Chapter 1 - Psychology and Scientific Thinking

Question 1

5 Reasons Psychology is Complicated ( CRIMM )

Answer 1

[CRIMM]

• *Cultural Differences**: like individual differences, place limits on what can be generalized from one human to the next.
• *Reciprocal Determinism**: we mutually influence each other’s behaviour - makes it hard to pinpoint causes of behaviour.
• *Individual Differences**: Variations among people in thinking, emotion, personality, & behaviour.
• *Multiple Determination**: Behaviours determined by many factors, not a single-variable explanation (common in pop psych).
• *Multicollinearity**: Influences rarely occur independent of each other - it’s hard to pin down what cause(s) are operating.

Question 2

Six Principles of Critical Thinking:

Answer 2

R/C FREO (radio controlling something amorphous): Replicability Correlation is not Causation Falsifiability (Popper) Rival Hypotheses (rule out) Extraordinary Claims (Hume) Occam’s Razor