Popper disagreed with the traditional view that scientific activity starts with:

a. a problem
b. empirical observation
c. logical deduction
d. a theory


b. empirical observation

Psychology

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To what extent do you feel arguments, even wars, result because people construe events with different construct systems? Defend your answer with Kelly's personal construct theory

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Personality appears to be influenced by several factors. Of the following lists, which one correctly orders the factors contributing to personality (from most to least):

A. error, genetic factors, nonshared environmental factors, shared environmental factors B. genetic factors, shared environmental factors, nonshared environmental factors, error C. shared environmental factors, genetic factors, nonshared environmental factors, error D. genetic factors, nonshared environmental factors, error, shared environmental factors

Psychology

The lasting contribution of the psychological school of thought known as structuralism is

A) its concern with understanding the adaptive purposes of consciousness. B) the importance it placed on systematic observation in studying consciousness. C) its concern with developing a scientific model of human learning. D) its findings that underscored the importance of unconscious mental processes in daily life.

Psychology

According to Irving Janis, the Bay of Pigs fiasco occurred because of:

a. a weak leader. b. groupthink. c. the risky shift phenomenon. d. group polarization.

Psychology