Philosophy Definitions
What is the theory of knowledge?
Epistemology
Who is often considered the father of dualism?
Rene Descartes
Quantitative and Qualitative
In these types of questions, participants cannot give responses that are not supplied
Closed questions
Considered the founding father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
What is the Greek term for soul?
psyche
His theory of forms argued that what people see and experience in their daily lives is actually just a representation of actual reality
Plato
Much of the research in Psychology is ____, taking a snapshot of the phenomenon we are interested in
at the point of data collection.
What are the different types of interviews?
Unstructured, semi-structured, structured
The study of internal mental processes, including consciousness
Cognitive Psychology
What is the study of reality?
Metaphysics
This philosopher suggested that the reason for anything coming about can be attributed to four different types of simultaneously active factors (the material, the formal, the efficient, the final)
Aristotle
Karl Popper suggested a theory of
of falsification.
Popper proposed that scientists should come up with better theories by first proving them false
A rating scale used to measure survey participants' opinions, attitudes, motivations..
Likert Scale
This branch of psychology focused on how people learn through their interactions with the environment, with pivotal experiments from Pavlov & Skinner
Behaviorism
What is the theory that all knowledge is based only on experience derived from the senses?
Empiricism
An English Philosopher in the period of Enlightenment, who believed that people begin life as a Tabula Rasa, or a blank slate
John Locke
Francis Bacon's theory was that scientific knowledge must come from the careful observation of nature filtered through
Inductive Reasoning
If your study/questionnaire is too long participants might demonstrate
Fatigue and/or order effects
The first person to teach psychology courses at
Harvard University
William James
What are the Latin phrases used in philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge by their dependence or independence from experience
A priori and A posteriori
A priori knowledge is independent from any experience. A posteriori knowledge depends on empirical evidence
This Scottish philosopher was known for his skepticism
David Hume
This philosophical approach emphasizes engaging in research in settings where variables can be controlled and manipulated, and therefore is a position inherent in the scientific method
Positivism *may also accept realism
In this type of response bias, respondents may feel the need to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably, according to society's expectations, rather than their own beliefs or experiences.
Social Desirability Bias
In the philosophy of science, Karl popper regarded this as a major problem
refers to the question of how to meaningfully and reliably separate science from pseudoscience
Demarcation Problem