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Question 1 1 / 1 pts According to Kuhn, scientists going about their normal work    seek to come up with new theories;    seek to fill in the gaps in existing theories;    attempt to falsify their theories;    attempt to prove their theories

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Question 1

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According to Kuhn, scientists going about their normal work

  

seek to come up with new theories;

  

seek to fill in the gaps in existing theories;

  

attempt to falsify their theories;

  

attempt to prove their theories.

 

Question 2

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For Kuhn, science is, for the most part, characterised by

  

innovation;

   

rationality;

   

creativity;

   

conservatism.

 

 

Question 3

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The job of the scientist, according to Kuhn, is to

  

question the prevailing orthodoxy;

  

expand the scope of the prevailing orthodoxy;

  

derive theories from observation;

  

None of the above.

 

Question 4

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Which of the following statements are true of paradigms, according to Kuhn?
i. They are practical and theoretical framework within which scientists work
ii. They alter the way that the scientist sees the world
iii. They change only infrequency in the history of science
iv. They inhibit the progress of science

  

i only;

  

i and ii only;

  

i, ii, and iii only;

  

i, ii, iii, and iv.

 

Question 5

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According to Kuhn, when conflicting data are obtained, scientists are most likely to

  

immediately reject the old paradigm;

  

immediately reject the data as unreliable;

  

rejig the paradigm to accommodate the troublesome results;

  

leave the troublesome results to one side while they turn their attention to other problems.

 

Question 6

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For Kuhn, paradigm shifts

  

cannot be explained or justified on purely rational grounds;

  

are logically demanded by anomalous findings that cannot fit into the old paradigm;

  

are indicative of the superior explanatory power of the new paradigm compared to the old;

  

occur frequently in the history of science.

 

Question 7

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For Kuhn, the scientist’s observations

  

are partially determined by the paradigm;

  

are entirely determined entirely by the paradigm;

  

are purely objective;

  

require a completely open mind cleansed of all preconceptions.

 

Question 8

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One paradigm can never be declared superior to another because

  

they are incommensurable;

   

they are incomprehensible;

   

there are no standards in science;

   

all paradigms have their faults.

 

 

Question 9

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For Kuhn, the results of a scientific revolution

  

are always progressive;

   

can be shown to be superior to the old paradigm only in retrospect;

   

are known in advance by supporters of the new paradigm;

   

cannot be known in advance by supporters of the new paradigm.

 

 

Question 10

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For Kuhn, if one were to take falsificationism literally,

  

all theories would be falsified all the time as there are always anomalies that do not fit in with any given theory;

   

there would not be enough time for any theory to establish itself and there would be no stability in science;

   

science would never have emerged from the pre-scientific stage;

   

all of the above.

 

Quiz Score: 10 out of 10