quiz questions

Question 1

_________ refers to the description of behaviour, the discovery of lawful relationships among aspects of behavior, and the search for causes

Answer 1

discovering regularities

Question 2

the purpose of a _____ is to organize and explain laws, predict new laws, and guide new research

Answer 2

theory

Question 3

_______ refers to a view that scientific concepts must be defined in terms of observable operations

Answer 3

operationalism

Question 4

_____ means based on experience

Answer 4

empirical

Question 5

what are non-empirical methods of research?

Answer 5

authority and logic

Question 6

what are empirical methods of research?

Answer 6

intuition and science

Question 7

______ is based on someone else’s knowledge

Answer 7

authority

Question 8

_____ is based on deductive or inductive reasoning

Answer 8

logic

Question 9

_____ is the practical intelligence shared by a large group of people

Answer 9

common sense

Question 10

_______ refers to something that goes against common sense

Answer 10

counterintuitive

Question 11

______ refers to something that occurs prior to another thing

Answer 11

temporal precedence

Question 12

______ refers to when the cause is introduced, the effect occurs

Answer 12

covariation of cause and effect

Question 13

_______ refers to the philosophy that objects perceived have an existence outside of the mind

Answer 13

realism

Question 14

________ refers to statistical association of a cause with an effect

Answer 14

probabilistic co-variation