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Scientific Reasoning
Miscellaneous
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observation?
100
The desire to learn more about a topic of study.
What is curiosity?
100
Refers to the rules that enable people to know right from wrong.
What is ethics?
100
To make decisions and draw conclusions based on available evidence.
What is objective reasoning?
100
A way of learning about the natural world.
What is science?
200
To explain or interpret the things you observe.
What is inferring?
200
Reporting observations truthfully.
What is honesty?
200
An outside influence.
What is bias?
200
To make decisions or draw conclusions based upon personal feelings.
What is subjective reasoning?
200
A type of observation that deals with numbers or amounts.
What is a quantitative observation?
300
Making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based upon past experience or evidence.
What is predicting?
300
Coming up with inventive ways to solve problems or produce new things.
What is creativity?
300
A type of bias that comes from a person's likes or dislikes.
What is personal bias?
300
A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and than applying the idea to a specific observation.
What is deductive reasoning?
300
A type of observation that deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
What is a qualitative observation?
400
The grouping together of items that are alike in some way.
What is classifying?
400
Capable of accepting new and different ideas.
What is open-mindedness?
400
A type of bias that stems from a person's culture in which he/she grows up in.
What is cultural bias?
400
Using specific observations to make generalizations.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
Creating representations of complex objects or processes.
What is making models?
500
Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them.
What is evaluating?
500
An attitude of doubt.
What is skepticism?
500
A mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely.
What is experimental bias?
500
Drawing a conclusion based upon too little data.
What is faulty reasoning?
500
Refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather.
What is scientific inquiry?