Conducting Experiments in Psychology Measuring the Weight of Smoke

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Conducting Experiments in Psychology Measuring
the Weight of Smoke
s e c o n d e d i t i o n

• Brett W. Pelham
• Hart Blanton
• Presentation prepared by Alan Swinkels

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Chapter 1

• How Do We Know?

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A Brief History of Human Knowledge

• Metaphysical Systems
• Philosophy
• Physiology and the Physical Sciences
• Experimental Psychology

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The Four Canons of Science

• Determinism
• Empiricism
• Parsimony
• Testability

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Four Ways of Knowing About the World

• Intuitions
• Logic
• Reliance on Authority
• Empirical Observation

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Key Terms from Chapter 1

• Metaphysical explanations
• Animism
• Mythology and religious explanations
• Astrology
• Positivism
• Canons

• Experimental method
• Determinism
• Theories
• Empiricism
• Parsimony
• Testability
• Falsifiability
• Operational definitions