Key Terms for Test 1

Question 1

Knowledge via superstition

Answer 1

Based on subjective feelings, interpreting random events as nonrandom events, or believing in magical events

Question 2

Knowledge via intuition

Answer 2

Gained without being consciously aware of its source

Question 3

Knowledge via authority

Answer 3

Gained from those viewed as authority figures

Question 4

Knowledge via tenacity

Answer 4

Gained from repeated ideas that are stubbornly clung to despite evidence to the contrary

Question 5

Knowledge via rationalism

Answer 5

Gained through logical reasoning

Question 6

Knowledge via empiricism

Answer 6

Gained through objective observations of organisms and events in the real world

Question 7

Knowledge via science

Answer 7

Gained through a combination of empirical methods and logical reasoning

Question 8

hypothesis

Answer 8

Prediction regarding the outcome of a study involving the potential relationship between at least two variables