Features Of Science Flashcards

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Objectivity

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All sources of personal bias or minimalised so as not to distort or influence the research process

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Empirical method

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Scientific approach is there are based on the gathering of evidence through direct observation

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Replicability

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The extent to which scientific procedures and findings can be repeated by other researchers using the same standardised method.

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Falsifiability

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The principle that a theory cannot be considered scientific unless it admits the possibility of being proved untrue/false

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Who invented the concept of falsifiability

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Popper

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Theory construction

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The process of developing an explanation for the causes of behaviour by systematically gathering evidence and then organising this into a coherent account

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Hypothesis testing

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A key feature of a theory is that it should produce statements (hypotheses) which can then be tested. Only in this way can a theory be falsified

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Paradigm

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A set of shared meanings/assumptions and agreed methods with a scientific discipline

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Who invented the concept of a paradigm

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Kuhn

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Paradigm shift

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The result of a scientific revolution where there is a scientific change in the dominant theory within scientific discipline

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