Thinking Like a Scientist Flashcards
What Attitudes Help You Think Scientifically?
Scientists possess certain important attitudes, including curiosity, honesty, creativity, open-mindedness, skeptisim, good ethics, and awareness of bias.
What is curiosty?
What drives scientists to want to learn more abput the topics they study.
What is honesty(in science)?
Scientists reporting all thier obsevations and reults truthfully ecspecially when the results go against previous ideas and predictions.
What is creativity?
Coming up with inventive ways to solve problems or produce new things
What is open-mindedness?
Capability of accepting new and different ideas
What is skepticism?
An attitude of doubt
Why should skeptcism be balenced with open mindedness?
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.
What are ethics?
Rules which tell us right ad wrong
What is bias?
prejudice
What are the 3 types of bias?
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
What is scientific reasoning?
Requires logical way of thinking based on gathering and evaluating evidence.
What is objective reasoning?
Making decisions and drawing conclusions based on available evidence
What is subjective reasoning?
When personal feeling have entered into a decision or conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to specific observation
What is inductive reasoning?
Using specific obsevations to make generalizations
