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Question 1)   Which of these is not an assumption scientists make about nature?       Answers: Nature is lawful

Physics

Question 1)

 

Which of these is not an assumption scientists make about nature?

     

Answers:

Nature is lawful.

 

Behaviori is deterministic.

 

 

All aspects of nature can be studied using the scientific method.

 

Nature is understandable

     
  • Question 2

 

   
 

Imagine you meet a man on an airplane who claims he is a scientist. After listening to him talk for a while you know he is not telling the truth.  Which of his attitudes gave it away?

     

Answers:

"I am open-minded and consider many perspectives when doing research."

 

"No one can be certain about how a behavior operates, not even me"

 

 

"I am good at what I do, thus there is no reason to be skeptical of my findings."

 

"I never do research that would potentially harm others."

     
  • Question 3

 

   
 

Tony is studying movie-going behavior. Sometimes he counts the number of times his participants go to the movies each month, and sometimes he asks participants to report whether they go to the movies "never, seldom, or frequently." Unfortunately, Tony's measure violates the scientific criterion of

     

Answers:

objectivity

 

 

being systematic

 

empiricism

 

control

     
  • Question 4

 

   
 

Dr. Jordan says that the reason people flip channels during commercials is that they are motivated to see what is on the other channels. This type of circular argument is called a(n):

     

Answers:

 

pseudo-explanation

 

independent verificiation

 

motivational perspective

 

serendipitious finding

     
  • Question 5

 

   
 

The scientifi goal of explaining and controlling the reasons for a behavior can be met by testing

     

Answers:

descriptive hypotheses

 

explanatory hypotheses

 

observational hypotheses

 

 

causal hypotheses

     
  • Question 6

 

   
 

Dr. Johnson tells you that ESP works but only with people who believe it exists and who are not skeptical of it. Dr. Johnson's research is not scientific because it is

     

Answers:

not testable

 

not rational

 

descriptive

 

 

not falsifiable

     
  • Question 7

 

   
 

Organizing empirical findings and guiding research are two functions that are served by

     

Answers:

hypotheses

 

predictions

 

manipulations

 

 

theories

     
  • Question 8

 

   
 

Prediction is to hypothesis as

     

Answers:

 

specific is to general

 

how is to why

 

secondary is to primary

 

testable is to falsifiable

     
  • Question 9

 

   
 

The best evidence for Hypothesis Z comes when we confirm Hypothesis Z and simultaneously

     

Answers:

 

disconfirms rival hypotheses

 

control extraneous factors that may affect the results


 

 

use a random sample of subjects

 

avoid pseudo-explanations

     
  • Question 10

 

   
 

Dr. Maxwell, a researcher, is conducting a study that is similar to a previous study. However, she is using different kinds of participants and measuring the behavior differently.  What kind of replication is she doing?

     

Answers:

Literal

 

 

Conceptual

 

Exact

 

Direct

     

 

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