The following items are concerned with assessing some of your ideas concerning epistemological and philosophical issues related to social psychology and scientific explanations. Please complete each item by indicating whether you Agree, Disagree, or are Neutral. Because science must assume that the universe is determined, the concept of free-will in humans must be denied if social psychology is to be a science.
Scientists prefer to rely on deduction rather than induction.
In the ideal theoretical model, all terms used are explicitly defined. According to statistical convention, if the result is significant at the p less than .05 level, then the hypothesis under test is true. Unlike the natural sciences, crucial tests of a theory or two conflicting theories are impossible in social psychology. Because values do play a key role in social psychology, this field is not as scientific as the other sciences. Scientific knowledge grows in a cumulative process.