The last of three stages of what Kuhn described to be the three historical stages in the development of science
revolution
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A collective set of theoretical assumptions about a subject and it's methods of enquiry
paradigm
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_______ psychologists focus on the study of mental processes
cognitive
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The process of deriving new hypotheses from the theory is called _________
deduction
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Argues that psychology has already gone through several paradigm shifts: from structuralism, to behaviourism, to cognitive psychology
Palermo
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A set of propositions which provide principles of analysis or explanation of a subject matter
theory
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Karl ______ (1963) maintained a that for a hypothesis to be truly scientific, it has to be capable of falsification
Popper
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When a researcher is able to imagine some occurance that would contradict a hypothesis
falsification
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Falsification is a good thing as it allows science to develop and stops researchers wasting time on a _________ theory
redundant
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The simplest, most straightforward explanation for behaviour
parsimony
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Freudian case study (2 words)
littlehans
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The 3 key features of this are to: control variables, collect objective data and establish cause and effect
experiment
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Occurs when the beliefs, wishes, attitudes and even the mere presence of the experimenter effects the experiment, or more precisely, the participants (2 words)
experimenterbias
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When participants try to guess the aim of the study, this is known as ______ characteristics
demand
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An experiment is __________ if findings are verifiable by other researchers imitating the experiment
replicable
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For theories and findings from empirical research to be of value, it should be possible to generalise from a small or limited sample to a population as a whole
generalisation
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Behaviour which is not observable and against the scientific approach
subjective
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________ behaviours can be measured and tested
observed
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Philosopher William James (1890) stated that an internal monologue or a stream of _____________ is always present
consciousness
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After going through Peer Review, journals become published by ___
BPS
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