Scientific Approach Flashcards
What are the 4 sources of knowledge?
- authority
- intuition
- logic
- observation
What is authority referring to source of knowledge ?
religion or mythology
What does intuition to mean in source of knowledge?
- no formal training
- common sense
What is logic?
- formal rules of reasoning
What is observation as a source of knowledge?
- measuring phenomena
What is the order from most important of source knowledge for science?
- observation
- Logic
- Intuition
- Authority
What are the 4 assumptions of science?
- Determinism
- Empiricism
- Testability/ Falsifiability
- Parsimony
What does determinism mean?
- everything has a cause
What is empiricism?
- importance of observation
what does science value?
objection
What does testability of science mean?
- that the theory is testable
What does parsimony mean?
theory is simple
What are the visual cliff studies?
where they test is children who can crawl will cross the table that is an illusion of a cliff when the parent is on the other end with different facial expressions
What was the outcome of the visual cliff studies?
children with more crawling experience are less likely to cross the visual cliff
What are the 7 steps of scientific process?
Identify a problem
Gather information
Formulate a hypothesis
Anaylze data
Record and organize data
Design an experiment
Draw conclusions
What are the 3 steps of the scientific process that turn in to the introduction of the paper?
Identify a problem
Gather information
Formulate a hypothesis
What are the 3 steps of the scientific process that turn into the methods and results?
Analyse data
Record and organize data
Design an experiment
Which one of the scientific process steps is a part of the discussion in a paper?
- draw conclusions
