Psychology 255- Study guide questions with correct answers

What are the ways of knowing? Answer 1. Intuition 2. Authority 3. Empiricism 4. Scientific approach Characteristics of the scientific method Answer 1. Data play a central role 2. Scientist are not alone 3. Science is adversarial 4.Scientific evidence is peer reviewed 4 goals of behavioral science Answer 1. to describe behavior 2. to predict behavior 3. to determine the causes of behavior 4. to understand or explain behavior What are the three things that must happen in order to conclude causation? Answer 1. Temporal precedence- Temporal order of events in which the cause precedes the effect 2. Covariation of cause and effect- Effect occurs only in the presence of cause 3. Alternative explanations: Nothing other than causal variable could be responsible for the observed effect