We know this method best; it is all about observation.
What is the Phenomenological method?
100
The cause of something. We must be able to predict and also get a hold of to control.
What is a relevant variable?
100
A secondary phenomenon caused by and accompanied by another phenomena
(hint: think of the example from lecture about harmonics & car engine parts examples & how humans are just a bunch of little parts that are wired and interacting).
What is an Epiphenomenon?
100
In lecture, our assumptions & lack of understanding of the moon was used to explain this.
Why is it that scientists may be able to predict, but may not be able to control everything in the Universe?
200
There is no “truth. Instead science has an approximation of the truth aka basically the best of what we have at this time.
Why science does not and cannot know the truth?
200
Using this method involves using your observation and experience to define a thing or event in a universal language.
What is the Empirical Method?
200
This is the assumption on which the Automaton Theory rests.
What is "The universe is rational and functions in a lawful matter."
200
These are the reasons Freud never truly realized his dream of finding a scientific theory.
What is "he did not have falsifiable theory or scientific method?"
200
Three things that scientists, priests, ayatollahs and
witch doctors have in common.
What are
1. Faith
2. Have their own rituals to create truth.
3. Find an apply rules that predict the future and explain
the present.
?
300
Phenomenological, Empirical, & Analytical.
What are 3 ways of describing the truth?
300
The method that is always true, regardless of what your personal experience tells you. Example: mathematics.
What is the Analytical method?
300
This is the reason the human mind is included in the Automaton Theory.
What is "the mind is still epiphenomenon and ruled by causality and it is lawful?"
300
The reason there appears to be a natural break between Biological and Social Sciences.
What is Biology is a living science & Social Sciences are non-living science?
300
The four differences between science and religion.
What are
1. Science corrects its mistakes - challenges all ideas and
assumptions.
2. Science works in the material world. It does exactly what it claims to do.
3. Science doesn’t want your belief or disbelief.
4. Science does not pretend to your soul.
?
400
Since the 3 ways we seek truth all have their imperfections, we use this grand method to seek truth?
What is "The Scientific Method?"
400
We use ______ to override the things we have come to “_____” through personal experience, feeling, and the things our parents taught us.
What are knowledge & belief?
(An example of this is would be your knowledge of the Automaton theory overriding
your belief in free will.)
400
According to the Automaton theory, what are humans & what does this mean?
What is "You (we) are a biochemical machines, nothing more than this. We are predictable, therefore we can be controlled?
400
Consider the Descriptive Law chart from lecture three:
Laws are connected by ____ & epiphenomena by ____
What are logic & causality?
400
The only thing that science and traditional religions have in common?
What is faith?
500
Both of these concepts blind you from the truth and should be avoided.
Belief & Disbelief.
500
These are the four reasons the College of Science requires psych majors to take a methods course (besides from the obvious reason: to torture us... haha)
What are
1. Satisfies major requirement
2. Discipline
3. Educational experience
4. The method works
500
These were Descartes’ two contributions in developing the Automaton Theory.
What is "He proposed that we would always and forever be forced to make inferences about others' behavior"
and
"He focused on causality."
500
The explanation behind psychology's lag behind other Natural and Life Sciences.
What is "The creation of Descartes’ substance dualism created a delay of progression of psychology. Psychologists did not know how to study the mind as a science if it had characteristics such as freewill and choice.