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The word for science comes from the Latin world?
Scientia which means knowledge
The scientific technique used to collect and evaluate psychological data.
Methodology
Everyday non-scientific collection of psychological data used to understand the social world and guide our behavior.
Commonsense Psychology
Steps scientists take to gather and verify information, answer questions, explain relationships and communicate feelings.
Scientific method
The psychologist goal of prediction rests the assumption that behavior must follow a natural order, therefore it can be predicted.
Scientific mentality
Data that are observable or experienced.
Gathering Empirical Data
Modern scientist go beyond cataloging observation to proposing general principles -law or theories that will explain them
Seeking General Principles
General scientific principles that explain our universe and predict events.
Laws
Organized and rational thought, characterized by open-mindedness, objectivity, and parsimony; a principal tool of the scientific method.
Good thinking
An aspect of good thinking, stating that the simplest explanation is preferred until ruled out by conflicting evidence; also known as Occam's razor
Parsimony
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