What is it to describe, explain, predict, and control some events.
What is the Goals of Science
100
Doctrine of belief that events have natural causes.
What is Determinism
100
Formal statement of how concepts are related.
What is a theory
100
This research answers "why questions".
What is explanatory research
200
We learn from our parents, teachers, and/or media.
What is Authority
200
First objective of science
What is Description
200
Real evidence.
What is Empirical Data
200
Prediction of how concepts are related.
What is Hypothesis
200
This type of research can take a lifetime.
What is Longitudinal Research
300
Difficult to argue against and convey to others.
What is Personal Experience
300
People with anorexia will engage in excessive exercise. This is an example of what?
What is Prediction
300
Before findings are accepted, they must be...
What is Replicable
300
These generate testable hypotheses.
What is good theories
300
"What causes people to become more/less aggressive?". This is an example of...
What is Quantitative Research
400
The two means used to obtain empirical evidence.
What is observing an event and using a machine to measure something.
400
The step following description.
What is Explanation
400
Freud's theories lack this requirement.
What is Falsifiability
400
Six steps of scientific method.
What is Assume a natural cause for the phenomenon, make an educated guess about the cause, test your guess, revise your hypothesis, retest your guess, make a conclusion
400
This research has high control over variables and low generalizability.
What is Lab Research
500
We only use ten percent of our brains.
What is Tradition
500
This objective is not achieved until science has described, explained, and made predictions.
What is Control
500
Explanation that accounts for the most data with the fewest assumptions.
What is Parsimony
500
Five reasons we do research.
What is evaluate a theory, satisfy our curiosity, demonstrate a new technique, demonstrate a behavioural phenomenon, investigate the conditions influencing behavioural phenomena
500
This research answers a question simply to satisfy curiosity.