Cognitive psychology and learning
Any account of belief and belief-forming processes must take into consideration a salient feature of all belief formation: bias. As J. Lauwereyn’s book The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options argues, bias is a fundamental constraint in the production and maintenance of many veridical beliefs. What is important for her, however, is that we acknowledge this bias and qualify it as good or bad in terms of its role in decision making. Lauwereyn, as someone who hopes that “we will yet become a species that puts our brains to good use,” claims that the “neural signatures” that constitute the brain processes—especially those relevant to decision making—establish the basis for the effect of bias …show more content…
The research methodology involves the manipulation of findings and observation in order to explain a phenomenon. Quantitative research methodology is used in a variety of natural and social sciences including physics, biology, sociology, and geology. According to Cohen (1980), quantitative research is a social research that includes empirical methods as well as empirical statements. Cohen has described empirical statement as a descriptive statement that is about the case of the real world. Empirical statements are expresses in terms of …show more content…
Quantitative data is analysed with the help of mathematical models. There are two important parts of this definition. The first part is the explanation of phenomena.
The second part includes the collection of numerical data. The explanation of phenomenon is the first step. It is a key component of research including quantitative and qualitative. The next part of the definition is the collection of numeric data and the use of mathematical models. On the other side, the use of numeric data and mathematical models is not common in qualitative research. Qualitative data cannot be analysed through mathematical models.
As stated above, one of the central aims of my attempt to incorporate neurobiology into the discussion of justification is to develop what Goldman claims is the central focus of externalism, and, more broadly, analytic epistemology: methods of assessing and refining our understanding
Any account of belief and belief-forming processes must take into consideration a salient feature of all belief formation: bias. As J. Lauwereyn’s book The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options argues, bias is a fundamental constraint in the production and maintenance of many veridical beliefs. What is important for her, however, is that we acknowledge this bias and qualify it as good or bad in terms of its role in decision making. Lauwereyn, as someone who hopes that “we will yet become a species that puts our brains to good use,” claims that the “neural signatures” that constitute the brain processes—especially those relevant to decision making—establish the basis for the effect of bias …show more content…
The research methodology involves the manipulation of findings and observation in order to explain a phenomenon. Quantitative research methodology is used in a variety of natural and social sciences including physics, biology, sociology, and geology. According to Cohen (1980), quantitative research is a social research that includes empirical methods as well as empirical statements. Cohen has described empirical statement as a descriptive statement that is about the case of the real world. Empirical statements are expresses in terms of …show more content…
Quantitative data is analysed with the help of mathematical models. There are two important parts of this definition. The first part is the explanation of phenomena.
The second part includes the collection of numerical data. The explanation of phenomenon is the first step. It is a key component of research including quantitative and qualitative. The next part of the definition is the collection of numeric data and the use of mathematical models. On the other side, the use of numeric data and mathematical models is not common in qualitative research. Qualitative data cannot be analysed through mathematical models.
As stated above, one of the central aims of my attempt to incorporate neurobiology into the discussion of justification is to develop what Goldman claims is the central focus of externalism, and, more broadly, analytic epistemology: methods of assessing and refining our understanding