Features of science

Question 1

Paradigm

Answer 1

-a set of shared assumptions and agreed methods within a scientific discipline

Question 2

Paradigm

Person

Answer 2

Kuhn (1962)

Question 3

Paradigm shift

Answer 3

• the result of a scientific revolution

- a significant change in the dominant theory within a scientific discipline

Question 4

Objectivity

Answer 4

-when personal bias doesn’t influence the research process

Question 5

Empirical method

Answer 5

-scientific approaches that are based on gathering evidence through direct observation and experience

Question 6

Falsifiability

Answer 6

-the principle that a theory cannot be considered scientific unless there is a possibility it can be proved untrue/false

Question 7

Replicability

Answer 7

• the extent to which scientific procedures and findings can be repeated by other researchers
• helps determine validity

Question 8

Deduction

Answer 8

-the process of deriving new hypotheses from an existing theory

Question 9

Theory

Answer 9

-a set of general laws or principles that can explain particular events or behaviours

Question 10

Theory construction

Answer 10

-occurs through gathering evidence via direct observation (empirical method)