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PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. What role does the scientific method play in contemporary psychology? What are the limitations of
the scientific method, and are there any better alternatives available? Students are often skeptical of
the scientific method and are eager to point out its flaws, such as the slow incremental progress it
generates, its reliance on measurable phenomena, its susceptibility to experimenter biases, and its
sterile methodology. Students often fail to realize, however, that, although it may be flawed, the
scientific method is the best tool we have to generate valid, reliable knowledge and that it has
provided us with a wealth of discoveries.
2. What psychological principles have become part of the larger culture, have penetrated our thinking
and language? Psychological principles permeate advertising, marketing, television, movies, sales,
self-help books, fashion, politics, and folk wisdom, to name a few, but students are often unaware of
this influence. Pointing out this influence is a good way to keep your students’ interest. For
example, the concept of “psychological stress,” so prevalent in our cultural landscape, was rarely
mentioned 50 years ago.
3. Ask your students how many of them believe in determinism. Then ask them many of them believe
in free will. Insist that they cannot have it both ways. You will be surprised to find that many, if not
most, students believe in free
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