Features Of Science (blakeley) Flashcards

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Paradigm shift

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Ground breaking findings that change/alter a theory

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Falsifiability

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Should be a clear wrong scenario and willing to be proven wrong

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Theory construction and hypothesis testing

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Having a theory that other people can test and have predictions and expectations about

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Empiricism

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Belief that we need evidence to support a theory, lots of experiments

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Replicability

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Another person should be able to repeat the experiment and still obtain the same results

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Objectivity

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The researcher should not have bias based on facts

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