Ch. 1 Intro To The Scientific Method

Question 1

What are the five attributes of science?

Answer 1

• Objective
• Systemic
• Observable
• Repeatable
  -Manipulate something to show causality

Question 2

What is NOT scientific reasoning?

Answer 2

• Superstition
• Intuition
• Authority
• Rational Inductive Argument

Question 3

What are the independent and dependent variables?

Answer 3

independent is what changes throughout the experiment, the dependent variable is what is measured

Question 4

What is a confound variable?

Answer 4

something correlated with the independent variable which cannot be changed

Question 5

What is a subject variable?

Answer 5

Characteristics that you CANNOT manipulate in the SUBJECT (gender, age, ethnicity etc.)

Question 6

What are the goals of science?

Answer 6

• Describe
• Explain and Predict
• Control (if applied in research)

Question 7

What are theories and what do they consist of?

Answer 7

they are attempts to explain observations of data which include:
- Laws
- Principles
- Beliefs/assumptions

Question 8

What makes a good theory? What are its characteristics?

Answer 8

• It is parsimonious (simple)
• Precise
• Falsifiable
• Accurate