The Research Enterprise

Question 1

What does tenacity mean as a way of knowing?

Answer 1

believing something is true just because you’ve alway heard it or believed it even without evidence

ie. opposites attract

Question 2

How would you define authority as a way of knowing?

Answer 2

is accepting something as true because an expert or someone in power said so

ie. Trusting a doctor

Question 3

What is rationalism?

Answer 3

rationalism means using logic and reasoning to arrive at a conclusion without checking it through observations

ie. all human are mortal, socrates is human therefore socrates is mortal

Question 4

What does empiricism mean?

Answer 4

learning through direct observations or experiences

ie measuring reaction times in an experiment

Question 5

What is descriptive methods?

Answer 5

are ways to observe and describe behaviour without changing anything

ie. case studies, surveys

Question 6

What is correlation methods?

Answer 6

to measure the relationship between 2 variables but don’t show cause and effect

ie. studying if more than 2 house or studying is related to higher test scores

Question 7

What is the experimental method?

Answer 7

involved manipulating one variable to see if it effects another showing cause and effect

Question 8

What is a correlation study?

Answer 8

looks at how closely 2 variables are related, using statistics called a correlation coefficient

Question 9

What is the independent variable?

Answer 9

is the one the researcher changes or controls to see it’s effect

Question 10

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 10

what is being measured, it depends in the independent variable

Question 11

What is inferential statistics?

Answer 11

helps researchers make conclusion about a larger population based on data from a sample

Question 12

What is pseudoscience?

Answer 12

look scientific but does not follow the scientific methods as is lacks evidence and cannot be tested

ie. miracles, astrology