Features of scienceee

Question 1

what is objectivity?

Answer 1

not allowing our own PERSONAL opinion/biases AFFECT our data or behaviour of partcipants

Question 2

What is the empirical method?

Answer 2

approaches based on gathering EVIDENCE through DIRECT OBS and EXPERIENCE.

e.g. observations and experiments

Question 3

what is replicability?

Answer 3

the EXTENT to which procedures and findings can be REPEATED.

important in validity and replicability

Question 4

what is falsibiability?

Answer 4

Popper said theories should hold themselves up for hyp testing and possibility of being proven false.

this is why we have NULL hypothesis and why theories that have been tested REPEATEDLY and not been falsified are the STRONGEST

Question 5

what is a paradigm?

Answer 5

a set of SHARED assumptions and methods. Sciences have this shared paradigm.

Kuhn suggests psychology may be a pre-science as opposed to a natural science.

He suggests that psych has too much disagreement and conflicting approaches to be classed as having a universal paradigm.

Question 6

what is a paradigm shift?

Answer 6

Kuhn suggests that science PROGRESSES through a process of scientific REVOLUTION.

researchers begin to question the ACCEPTED paradigm and this gathers PACE until a paradigm SHIFT occurs.

The paradigm shift is when the contradictory evidence CANNOT be ignored and there is a shift to this new belief.