11/28/2012 Ch 14: Personality 1. What is it? 2. Freud’s theory 3. Behavior theory 4. Biological theory 5. Humanistic theory Rosellini PSY 101 Ch 14 1 Personality An individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavior across a wide variety of situations. Personality theories: – A bit of history Galen – Psychoanalytic – Behavioral – Biological – Humanistic Rosellini PSY 101 Ch 14 2 A bit of history: Galen 130-200AD 130Personality Choleric Melancholic Phlegmatic Sanguine &
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objective and empirical methods. A good theory or hypothesis also must be falsifiable‚ which means that it must be stated in a way that makes it possible to reject it. This means that a theory or hypothesis has to be able to be proved wrong. Falsifiability must exist because all researchers can succumb to the confirmation bias. Researchers who display confirmation bias look for and accept evidence that supports what they want to believe and ignore or reject evidence that disproves their beliefs
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Falsifiability increases empirical knowledge – an example in search assessment Swets’ ROC analysis was developed and validated for signal detection given a known location. Clinically relevant tasks are often more complicated‚ e.g.‚ search‚ multi-class classification‚ estimation‚ etc. Many extended ROC methods are proposed for each task‚ and there is a sincere lack of consensus concerning which extended ROC method is more appropriate. Before discussing how the lack of falsifiability contributes to
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Name __________________________________________________________ Chapter 2 – Quick Quiz 1 1. A(n) _______________ is an organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specified set of phenomena. a. theory c. operational definition b. hypothesis d. experiment 2. An ideal scientist should: a. not express skepticism of new ideas. c. not support falsifiable theories. b. rely on scientific intuition. d. be willing to make “risky predictions.” 3. An advantage
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that describes a problem‚ 2) create a hypothesis‚ 3) test the hypothesis‚ and 4) draw conclusions and refine the hypothesis. The major precepts of the scientific method employed by all scientific disciplines are verifiability‚ predictability‚ falsifiability‚ and fairness. The application of the scientific theory to psychology took the discipline from a form of philosophy to a form of science. Critical thinking is a key component of the scientific method. Without it‚ you cannot use logic to come to
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issue has been in debate for decades between philosophers of science in order to find the basis on which this separation can exist. The likes of Karl Popper initially introduced the demarcation criterion called “falsificationism” which states that falsifiability is the “logical possibility that an assertion can be shown false by an observation or a physical experiment”[1] and it was on this beginning that Popper was able to make the distinctive separation of science from pseudoscience. However if Popper’s
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As was first outlined by Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)‚ scientific methods allow for sensible and logical problem resolve across numerous scientific areas. Verifiability‚ predictability‚ falsifiability‚ and fairness are the main rules in all scientific fields. References: 1. BBC | Human Body and Mind | What is Psychology ?‚ www.bbc.co.uk‚ archived page. 2. Difference Between Psychology and Common Sense‚ November 3‚ by admin‚ http://www.differencebetween
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Freud’s Psychodynamic Theory proposes the idea that psychoanalysis is an ideal way to treat mental and personality disorders through a range of therapeutic techniques. Freud developed this theory in the late 1800s and early 1900s‚ in which he used the technique psychoanalysis to observe his numerous patients (Gazzaniga‚ M.‚ Heatherton‚ T. and Halpern‚ D. 2016). However‚ the scientific method includes a range of components‚ including hypothesis testing and demarcation‚ that allows the experimenter
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and often on the way the researcher chooses to study a phenomenon ( Makunda‚ 1997). It also depends on what is meant by ’scientific’ – for the philosopher of science Karl Popper‚ for instance‚ the most important criterion was what he called ’falsifiability’. There are also other criteria of science‚ which I am going to present in this essay. I will examine different psychological theories in the light of different aspects of scientific endeavour. Defining science is not an easy task. There are
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Apriorism (Assignment # 6) ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Submitted to ------------------------------------------------- Professor Juan Carlos Cachanosky ------------------------------------------------- By ------------------------------------------------- Niloufar Shahlaeinamini -------------------------------------------------
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