True or False
Which AOK
Human Sciences
Math
Math Key Terms
100

True or False: Mathematics often has a close relationship to the Arts AOK. 

True

100

Which AOK is knowledge is based in empirical data hypotheses and experimentation?

Natural Sciences. 

100

______ data is gathered by such activities as surveys, questionnaires, study of statistics, and other generally mathematically-measurable values

Quantitative 

100

True or False: Mathematics is used within all areas of knowledge as a method of prediction, description and knowledge construction.

True 

100

Math is built upon self evident truths called______. 

Axioms 

200

True or False: The correspondence theory of truth bases the truth of a belief on the degree to which it fits or "hangs together" with all the other knowledge in a system of knowledge 

False- Coherence Theory 

200

Which AOK Uses deductive reasoning to prove theorems? 

Mathematics

200

The fact that watching a situation or phenomenon necessarily changes it.

What is the Observer or Hawthorne effect? 

200

Mathematical systems utilise the power of ______ reasoning in order to come to conclusions which have an incredibly high degree of  predictive power , without requiring physical evidence. 

Deductive

200

This type of reasoning takes specific examples and uses them to form general statements.  

Inductive Reasoning  

300

True or False: Axioms can never be proven wrong.  

False

300

Which AOK studies the recorded past? 

History.

300

The discipline of psychology was recently rocked by a____ crisis because the results of many famous studies could not be reproduced by other researchers. 

Replication, replicated 

300

The_______ believe that numbers and mathematical objects are real and were not created.  

Platonists  
300

An inferential argument for a mathematical statement, showing that the stated assumptions logically guarantee the conclusion. It is determined using deductive reasoning.  

A Proof 

400

True or False: Deductive reasoning involves moving from a general premise to specific examples that lead to a conclusion. 

True 

400

Which AOK can aid us in understanding human behavior?

Human Sciences 

400

Which of the following is NOT a human science?

A. Political Science 

B. Historiography

C. Linguistics

D.  Media Studies 

B. Historiography 

400

The _________ believe  that mathematics is a human-invented method of description similar to language.   

The formalists  

400

A conclusion that is formed based on incomplete information; or a conclusion that is not yet accepted as fully certain.

A conjecture. 
500

True or False: In the Human Sciences, If X happens, then Y will be the result. 

False. 

500

Which AOK encompasses the creative production of humans? 

The Arts  

500

________ is not the same as causation. It only shows whether two factors or variables are related.

Correlation 

500

Think back to the ethical theories. A _______ would claim that the benefits resulting from the mathematical knowledge that created nuclear weapons are greater than the harm caused thus far.

Utilitarian 

500

The study and development of mathematical knowledge without application to another area of knowledge.

Pure Mathematics