Scientific Method

Question 1

Thinking critically

Answer 1

Critical thinking refers to active understanding of information
What is the claim
who is making the claim
What is the evidence and how strong is it
Are there alternative explanations
What is the most appropriate conclusion

Question 2

Four goals

Answer 2

1 description

2. explanation
3. control
4. Application

Question 3

Dualism

Answer 3

René Descartes’s argument is because he can imagine his mind is separate from his body but not his body without his mind

Question 4

Monism

Answer 4

Thomas Hobbes argument is mind in the brain of the same thing and Are related to each other

Question 5

British impiricism

Answer 5

Knowledge is gained empirically through the senses and direct observation is more reliable than reason alone

Question 6

Physiology experiments

Answer 6

Electrical stimulation leading to movement

Question 7

Cognitive psychology

Answer 7

Examines nature to mind and influence to mental processes and behaviour

• structuralism functionalism and gestalt principles
• cognitive behaviour reason, psychology, neuroscience

Question 8

Sociocultural psychology

Answer 8

Investigate how real, imagined or implied presence of others affects thinking and behaviour

• examines environment and social condition
• how culture is transmitted to its members and similarities and differences between different cultures

Question 9

Biological psychology

Answer 9

• examines brain, psychological processes underlying behaviour, thoughts, perception
• early start is involving lessoning or direct simulation
• cognitive neuroscience is the intersection between cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience such as speech disruption