Ways of Knowing
Canons of Science
Discovery
Scientific Discovery
Statistics
100
This earliest category of explaining human behavior believed that natural phenomena are alive and influence behavior.
What is animism?
100
This idea that scientific theories should be falsifiable and conformable.
What is testability?
100
A universal statement of the nature of things that allows reliable predictions of future events.
What is a law?
100
A way to measure reliability of a measure by test a participant more than once and comparing their scores.
What is test-retest reliability?
100
A dog runs barking towards the front door, however when you open the door no one is there. The dog performed this kind of error.
What is a Type I Error?
200
Of the four ways of knowing, philosophy views this way as most important.
What is logic?
200
This idea that the universe is orderly; that all events have meaningful, systematic causes.
What is determinism?
200
First graders are offered a foul tasting drink for lunch all week. On Friday a teacher pours a sweet soft drink from a soda bottle, but none of the children take the soda believing it also to be foul tasting. What technique did they use to decide the soda was bad?
What are deductive techniques?
200
This type of validity expresses the degree of certainty that the variables in a study reflect the actual variables the researcher hoped to study.
What is Construct Validity?
300
After hearing an odd story this simply told you that such a story seemed far-fetched
What is intuition?
300
This scientific tie breaker holds the idea that we should prefer the more simple explanation or theory over the more complex ones.
What is parsimony?
300
A prediction about a specific event that are created from one or more theories.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Susan came in 1st place, Paul came in 2nd, and John came in 3rd. Their ranks use this type of scale.
What is an ordinal scale?
300
A prison has released a person who was guilty of a crime. The prison made this kind of error.
What is a Type II Error?
400
A child seeking knowledge seeks out their teacher for answers who has they answers by way of what?
What is authority?
400
This approach to understanding the world places emphasis on making observations in the collection of data.
What is empiricism?
400
An approach to testing a hypothesis by gathering evidence that supports or confirms a theory or hypothesis.
What is validation?
400
Three judges at an appeals hearing all found the defendent guilty. This appeals hearing had a high level of this.
What is interrater reliability?
500
A theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that real knowledge is based on natural phenomena as verified by the empirical research.
What is positivism?
500
Observing peoples actions and making predictions about peoples actions in the future is part of this kind of research.
What is behavioral research?
500
Researchers who attempt to confirm rather than dis-confirm their theories are exercising this kind of bias.
What is positive test bias?
500
A study was conducted and found that people in the United States are mostly Right Handed. This statement is high in this.
What is external validity?
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