Matts lecture Flashcards
(22 cards)
William James
The thought processes was to zoom into consciousness like you zoom into cells
Behaviourism
Shift from consciousness, study how people and animals behave
(Neuro)Cog revolution
Chomsky, miller, Neisser looked at thoughts, feelings, behaviours all together by combining neurobiological, cognitive, and experimental methods
How have old white men historically maintained elitism
Write long, confusing publications that only people very specialised in the area would be able to understand it
Māori tohunga/tohuka and kaumatua are:
- Storehouses of knowledge
- Capturing things you may not see and observe in a scientific way
Holistic and broad
- Capturing things you may not see and observe in a scientific way
Where do western and te ao maori methods converge
- Talking, arguing, and discussing over years if we need to
- Knowledge takes time
- Knowledge needs preserving
- Knowledge comes with status
- Concepts can fit together/build on each other (e.g., wellbeing)
- Its not easy to access knowledge (there is often barrier to entry)
Where do maori and western methods diverge
Where credentials are from (ie., paper, experience)
- Research methods
- Holistic/reductionist
How does the scientific journalling industry make money
Institutions pay between $2 - $10 million dollars to subscribe to these companied for a year
- Some of each of these companies make around 34 Billion dollars a year
- Out of that they profit 13 billion
Open and transparent science benefit due to journal industry
- Scientists try and give everyone their publications for free
This is because they get NOTHING from journals
Consequences of journalling industry
Publishing just to publish, - You NEED the prestige of these journals have have been around since before the treaty of Waitangi
Global north advantage
Researchers don’t specify where its been conducted because its “what it is”
What articles do people prefer to read
- People tend to prefer reading articles from: their own country –> “no country” –> another country
Generalisable
Apply to anyone, anytime, anywhere
Specific
Only applies to a person/group and or time and or place
Can research be too generalisable?
Its impossible - every scientific finding cannot apply to anyone, everywhere all the time UNLESS its so basic
Objectivity
- Data are factual/numbers; any researcher would arrive at the same conclusion
Danger of objectivity
- DANGER = nothing is actually objective, all measurements are run by human beings who each have inherent bias, even machines are built on humans and how humans use language
Subjectivity
- Data depends on interpretation (which has inherent bias)
All researchers would have different conclusions
Danger of subjectivity
- DANGER = too subjective, nobody else can fathom or understand
What does translating concepts mean
- Need to cooperate with indigenous scholars
- We with a different positionality cannot translate
- Goal of translation = find lots of tools to get idea across
