Unit 1 List 1 Exp. Design(LD) Flashcards
Questions that can be answered through experimental inquiry and observation of the natural world.
Testable Question
Questions that cannot be answered by direct observation or by evidence gathered through experimental inquiries.
Non-Testable Question
Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality.
Quantitative
Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity.
Qualitative
The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
Trials
The act or instance of noticing or perceiving and the acquisition of information from a primary source.
Observation
Information acquired by observation or experimentation.
Empirical Evidence
Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
Data
A physical and/or mathematical and/or conceptual representation of a system of ideas, events or processes.
Models In Science
Similarity of function and superficial resemblance of structures that have different origins.
Analogy
An established or official way of doing something.
Procedure
The ancestral or primitive form of a species or other group; an archetype.
Prototype
Anything that can change or be changed within an experiment.
Variable
An element that remains unchanged or unaffected by other variables
Control
The quality or state of being correct or precise.
Accuracy
An idea that proposes a tentative explanation about a phenomenon or a narrow set of phenomena observed in the natural world.
Hypothesis
The quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate.
Precision
A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
Scientific Method
The factors that do not change during the experiment.
Constant
A conclusion or educated guess drawn from observations as well as previous knowledge.
Infer
A specific statement about what will occur (i.e. the outcome or pattern that will be observed) in a particular research investigation (e.g., an experiment).
Predict
Aren’t affected by any other variables that the study measures. The researcher often manipulates independent variables in a study.
Independent Variable
What you measure in the experiment and what is affected during the experiment. The dependent variable responds to the independent variable.
Dependent Variable
The factor or condition that is purposely changed by the scientist.
Manipulated Variable
The part of an experiment that a scientists measures and observes closely for a change or a response.
Responding Variable
The number of observations or individuals included in a study or experiment.
Sample Size
Scientifically accurate information that is used in an unbiased way to convey a biological idea.
Validity
Lack of consistency or fixed pattern; liability to vary or change.
Variability
The general change in a variable with time.
Trends in Data
A connection between a factor and an outcome.
Correlation
The property of a body that is a measure of its inertia and that is commonly taken as a measure of the amount of material it contains and causes it to have weight in a gravitational field.
Mass
The measure of the force of gravity acting on a body.
Weight
By a specified amount in or for every hundred.
Percent
The amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great.
Volume
The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.
Ratio
A measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against some other quantity or measure.
Rate
A graph representing data in a circular form, with each slice of the circle representing a fraction or proportionate part of the whole.
Pie Graph
A graphical representation of information that changes over a period of time.
Line Graph
A diagram in which the numerical values of variables are represented by the height or length of lines or rectangles of equal width.
Bar Graph
A graph in which the values of two variables are plotted along two axes, the pattern of the resulting points revealing any correlation present.
Scatterplot
Statements made in science based on an experiment.
Claim
The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
Evidence
Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing valid conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.
Reason
A well-substantiated explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can incorporate laws, hypotheses and facts.
Theory
A flaw in the study design or the method of collecting or interpreting information.
Bias
