Add to ORKGThe American Psychological Association\u27s (2007) curricular guidelines recommend that students develop both an understanding of how psychologists do research and an appreciation for why scientific thinking is necessary. We surveyed a large sample of psychology majors on specific interests, as well as individual difference variables relevant to scientific thinking. Our results suggest that over time, students\u27 knowledge of scientific thinking increased, whereas their tendency to see psychology as a science did not. Further, students reported greater interest in practitioner activities than scientific ones, and these divergent interests were associated with differential ways of thinking and of viewing the field of psychology. We discuss ...
of psychology asa scientific discipline, there is anestablished history of research under-pinning te...
Science is constantly changing. If one hopes to keep pace with advances in science, one cannot simpl...
Background: Understanding students’ naive conceptions about the norms that guide scientific best pra...
The Psychology as Science Scale (Friedrich, 1996) was administered to 525 psychology students from n...
Internationally, curricular guidelines for psychology recognise the scientific nature of the discipl...
Students' understanding of the nature of science (NOS), and the degree to which they perceive their ...
Students’ understanding of the nature of science (NOS), and the degree to which they perceive their ...
Could the same interests that draw many students to psychology also predict departure from the major...
There is considerable discussion about the assumptions that individuals have about the nature of kno...
The present study was designed to measure undergraduate students’ perceptions of psychology and soci...
How do students of psychology and students of other disciplines perceive what a professional psychol...
Could the same interests that draw many students to psychology also predict departure from the major...
Psychology: the science of mind and behaviour imparts students with a scientific understanding of th...
Psychology, perhaps more than any other science, has been open to the erroneous criticism that much ...
Since its emergence in the 19th century, academic psychology has striven to become accepted as a sci...
of psychology asa scientific discipline, there is anestablished history of research under-pinning te...
Science is constantly changing. If one hopes to keep pace with advances in science, one cannot simpl...
Background: Understanding students’ naive conceptions about the norms that guide scientific best pra...
The Psychology as Science Scale (Friedrich, 1996) was administered to 525 psychology students from n...
Internationally, curricular guidelines for psychology recognise the scientific nature of the discipl...
Students' understanding of the nature of science (NOS), and the degree to which they perceive their ...
Students’ understanding of the nature of science (NOS), and the degree to which they perceive their ...
Could the same interests that draw many students to psychology also predict departure from the major...
There is considerable discussion about the assumptions that individuals have about the nature of kno...
The present study was designed to measure undergraduate students’ perceptions of psychology and soci...
How do students of psychology and students of other disciplines perceive what a professional psychol...
Could the same interests that draw many students to psychology also predict departure from the major...
Psychology: the science of mind and behaviour imparts students with a scientific understanding of th...
Psychology, perhaps more than any other science, has been open to the erroneous criticism that much ...
Since its emergence in the 19th century, academic psychology has striven to become accepted as a sci...
of psychology asa scientific discipline, there is anestablished history of research under-pinning te...
Science is constantly changing. If one hopes to keep pace with advances in science, one cannot simpl...
Background: Understanding students’ naive conceptions about the norms that guide scientific best pra...