What is a science

Question 1

1) how do you write a aim?

Answer 1

1) explain cause and effect
- what is cause?
- what is effect?
- always start it off with “to investigate” or “to determine”

Question 2

what is a hypothesis?

Answer 2

when experimenter predicts the outcome of the study
for e.g chocolate will/will not increase dopamine

Question 3

1) what is independent variable?

2) what is dependent variable?

Answer 3

1) independent= what you are changing

2) what you are measuring

Question 4

why are there two versions of independent variable in experiment

Answer 4

to test if the iv has effect on dv
- for e.g your testing to see if fanta grows trees
- your going to have to use something else like water on your tree
- if you use both Fanta how are you going to know that Fanta is the one that grew the tree?
- if you use two different things you can see which one works

Question 5

What is operationalise

Answer 5

how are we exactly going to measure the dv
for eg you want to measure memory
- that is hard bc memory is not saying how it going to be measured so you gonna have to change it to
-“numbers recalled after 10 mins”
- you have to be exact!