Assignment task: The purpose of using the scientific method in psychological experiments is to be sure that the insights gained from those experiments will be as valid as possible.
1. Explore the various sources of knowledge acquisition: Experience, Authority, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning and the Scientific Method.
2. In your own life, indicate which source of knowledge acquisition comes the most naturally to you and why.
3. List and define the four major steps encountered in the scientific method helps to accomplish this because it helps ensure that research is done in a systematic way.