Features Of Science

Question 1

Objectivity

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Empirical method

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Replicability

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Falsifiability

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Who invented the concept of falsifiability

Answer 5

Popper

Question 6

Theory construction

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Hypothesis testing

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Paradigm

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Who invented the concept of a paradigm

Answer 9

Kuhn

Question 10

Paradigm shift

Answer 10

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