Scientific understanding of behavior Flashcards
When you rely on ____, you accept unquestioningly what your judgement or a single story about one person tells you.
Intuition and Anecdote
When you rely on ____, you accept unquestioningly what your judgement or a single story about one person tells you.
Intuition and Anecdote
It often involves finding an explanation for our behaviors or the behavior of others.
Intuitive Approach
This is when we focus on two events that stand out and occur together.
Illusory correlation
This is when we focus on two events that stand out and occur together.
Illusory correlation
the idea that knowledge comesfrom observations and experiences
Empiricism
What are the importance of research?
- Evaluate reports in various sources
- Many occupationrequire the use of research findins
- Important in developing and assessing the effectiveness of programs
- they can provide us the best answer and satisfy our curiousity
T/F
People have a unique observation arounbnd them and usually seeks explanation
True
Many people rely on ____ and _____ as primary ways of knowing
intuition and authority
When ypu rely on ___, you accept unquestioningly what your judgment about one peron’s experience tells you.
Intuition
T/F
numerous cognitive and motivational biases affectsour perception.
True
A cognitive bias which occus when we focus on two ts that stand out and occur together
Illusory Correlation
T/F
Some authty may include news media, book, teachers, government
True
T/F
Scientist accepts anyone’s intuition because they can check it themselves
false
The idea that kowledge comes from observations and experiences
empricism
T/F
The ways of knowing are the fundamental characteristic of a scientific meth
false. empiricsm
Scientists search for observationns that will verify or reject their ideas. They develop theories and conduct research that increases the confidence that the theories are correct
Data play a central role
You can be sure that many other scientists will follow up on the findings by conducting research that replicates and extends these observation
Scientists aare not alone
supporters of the ideas and those who disagree with the idea can report their research findings
science is adversarial
Good scientific ideas are _____. They can be supported orr be ______ by data.
Testable;falsified
Before a study is published in a top quality scientific journal, other scientists who have expertise to evaluate the research review it
Scientific evidence is peer reviewed
T/F
Scientific approach is an open system that allows ideas to be refuted or supported by others
true
the advantage of scientific approach is that it provides an objective rules for ____, ____, and ____.
Gathering, evaluating, and reporting
It is the use of seemingly scientific terms and demonstrations to substantiate claimms that have no basis in scientific research
Pseudoscience
