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Texts defines psychology as - ANS ✔✔Scientific study of behavior and mental process
Step 1 of scientific method - ANS ✔✔Perceiving the question -notifing something interesting in
your surroundings that you want explained
Step two of sci method - ANS ✔✔Forming a hypothesis-forming a an educated guess, form of
question
Step 3 of sci method - ANS ✔✔Testing hypothesis - design study to test hypothesis
Step 4 of sci method - ANS ✔✔Drawing conclusion - will either support or disprove your theory
Step 5 of sci method - ANS ✔✔Report results - what did you find?
Why do we use scientific method? - ANS ✔✔What to see what is really there rather than what
bias will lead them too
Goals of psych - ANS ✔✔Description - what's happening
Explanation - why is this happening
Prediction - when will it happen again
Control - how can it be changed
Observation methods - ANS ✔✔Naturalistic observation
Laboratory observation