Ch. 1 - What is Science? Flashcards
1
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empiricism
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learning through experience and observation
2
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rational thinking
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believing what makes the most sense
3
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faith
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knowing without evidence
4
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inductive reasoning
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bottom-up ; starts with obervations to create theory
5
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deductive reasoning
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top-down ; starts with theory and breaks down into observable concepts.
6
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exact replication
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high INTERNAL validity
7
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conceptual replication
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high EXTERNAL validity