Scientific Method
Clinical Trials
Experimental Design
Based on the Chart
The Nervous System
100
The first step in most experiments it this.
What is state the problem?
100
This refers to the number of people who are testing a new medicine. The number should be big!
What is sample size?
100
Making observations helps scientists to do this.
What is collect evidence?
100
85% of the treatment group felt better which indicates this.
What is an effective medicine?
100
This part of the brain enables you to think and make decisions.
What is the cerebrum?
200
This is an educated guess based on prior knowledge and experience.
What is hypothesis?
200
This is the agreement in which participants acknowledge the risks of a trial and agree to participate anyway.
What is informed consent?
200
“A piece of bread is five centimeters too long for the sandwich baggie” is an example of this kind of data.
What is quantitative?
200
Only 5% of the treatment group experienced side effects which indicate this.
What is a safe medicine?
200
This part of the brain controls based life functions such as breathing and heart rate.
What is brain stem?
300
This step involves a scientist preparing to conduct an experiment. It happens before collecting evidence, analyzing data, or making a conclusion.
What is develop a procedure?
300
Clinical trials must have these two groups-one receives a placebo and the other receives the actual medicine.
What is control and treatment group?
300
“She has red hair and green eyes” is an example of this kind of data.
What is qualitative?
300
10% of the patients receiving the placebo felt better. This is an example of…
What is the placebo effect?
300
This part of the brain controls movement and posture.
What is cerebellum?
400
In this step, scientists look at their charts and diagrams and investigate them.
What is analyze data?
400
People vary in responses, but these can still be made.
What are general conclusions?
400
This effect refers to a person in a control group who receives a fake form of medication and experiences healing.
What is placebo effect?
400
5-10km is this.
What is range?
400
Sensory neurons take a feeling from a part of your body and transfer them to this neuron in the brain.
What is interneuron?
500
This step confirms or denies a scientists hypothesis.
What is make conclusions?
500
In any given study, you could receive one of these two.
What is medicine and placebo?
500
Max wants to know how long it takes his cat, Sylvester, to finish his food. Two of the variables in this experiment are…
What is time of day and type of food?
500
The variable in this experiment was this.
What is distance?
500
Motor neurons send messages to this part of your body.
What are muscles?
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