Thinking Like a Scientist Flashcards

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What Attitudes Help You Think Scientifically?

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Scientists possess certain important attitudes, including curiosity, honesty, creativity, open-mindedness, skeptisim, good ethics, and awareness of bias.

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What is curiosty?

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What drives scientists to want to learn more abput the topics they study.

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What is honesty(in science)?

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Scientists reporting all thier obsevations and reults truthfully ecspecially when the results go against previous ideas and predictions.

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What is creativity?

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Coming up with inventive ways to solve problems or produce new things

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What is open-mindedness?

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Capability of accepting new and different ideas

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What is skepticism?

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An attitude of doubt

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Why should skeptcism be balenced with open mindedness?

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Even though you should be open-minded and accept new ideas, open-mindedness should be balanced with skepticism because this will keep scientist from accepting untrue ideas which could lead to faulty conclusions.

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What are ethics?

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Rules which tell us right ad wrong

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What is bias?

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prejudice

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What are the 3 types of bias?

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Personal - basesd on a person’s likes or dislikes
Cultural - stems from the culture of which the person grew up
Experimental - an intentional mistake in the design of the experiment that makes one result or likely

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What is scientific reasoning?

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Requires logical way of thinking based on gathering and evaluating evidence.

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What is objective reasoning?

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Making decisions and drawing conclusions based on available evidence

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What is subjective reasoning?

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When personal feeling have entered into a decision or conclusion.

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What is deductive reasoning?

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A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to specific observation

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What is inductive reasoning?

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Using specific obsevations to make generalizations

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What is faulty reasoning?

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If you use too little data, your reasoning will lead you to the wrong general idea.