Definitions
Theories
Norms and Counternorms
Potpurri
Golem Cases
100
A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions
What is science
100
The scientist responsible for the theory of paradigm shifts and scientific revolutions
Who is Thomas Kuhn
100
When scientists exclude women and minorities from participating in scientific endeavors
What is particularism
100
The original source of the term "Golem"
What is Jewish mythology
100
The theory that was "proven" in part by Eddington's trips to Sobral and Principe
What is theory of relativity
200
Something that arises when a puzzle within the current paradigm cannot be solved using current knowledge and methods
What is an anomaly
200
The inability to simply compare two different paradigms
What is incommensurability
200
When scientists delay publishing their research to the public
What is secrecy
200
What the Leyden Jar originally tried to measure or bottle
What is electricity
200
The sticking point for Stanford scientists attempting McConnell's experiments on the chemical transfer of memory
What is replicability
300
The inherent possibility for a statement, hypothesis, or theory to be proven false
What is falsifiability
300
The theory that science builds socially-situated knowledge and things
What is (social) constructionism
300
When scientists engage in the peer review process of publication
What is organized skepticism
300
A measurement of time that is socially constructed
What is a second, minute, or hour
300
The scientists whose story was told in the chapter on cold fusion
Who are Pons and Fleischmann
400
Now-debunked psychology based on external features of people's heads
What is phrenology
400
Time, mass, and length are not fixed, but are relative to the speed at which things move
What is relativity
400
When scientists seek profit from their discoveries or other personal gain
What is interestedness
400
The Golem case whose resolution was scientists "agreeing to agree"
What is cold fusion
400
The "unbiased" panel of judges mediating the "debate" about spontaneous generation
What is l'Academie des Sciences
500
The everyday, "puzzle solving" work of scientists
What is normal science
500
That knowledge comes from an observation or sensory experience
What is empiricism
500
When graduate students are admitted to doctoral programs regardless of ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, etc.
What is universalism
500
The history of science is known as the history of ______
What is giants
500
The scientists who had the "debate" about spontaneous generation
Who are Pasteur and Pouchet
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