what is science Flashcards
scientific experiments involve testing what kind of relationship
a cause and effect relationship
what is a cause and effect relationships
one things causes another thing to happen
what is the scientific process
the steps that scientists follow to test cause and effect relationship’s
how many steps are there for the scientific process
1) aim 2) hypothesis 3)method 4) results 5)conclusions
what is the aim
a statement which gives the reason or purpose for carrying out an experiment
what do aims always start with
To investigate
To determine
what is a hypothesis
is a prediction about what you think will happen in the experiment
independent variable
thing we change
dependent variable
thing we measure
two types of variable
independent and dependent variable
levels of the independent variable
the number of different versions of the IV there are in an experiment
operationalising variables
defining how the variables are going to be measured
what is the method
exact procedure that the researcher follows
what are results
the changes observed during an experiment
what is the conclusion
interpretation of the results