The three goals of science are to:
a. describe, research, and explain
b. describe, predict, and research
c. predict, explain, and research
d. describe, predict, and explain
_____ often violates _____.
a. Science; public verification
b. Pseudoscience; the principle of falsifiability
c. Science; systematic empiricism
d. Basic research; systematic empiricism
Presenting research so that is can be observed, replicated, criticized, and tested is known as _____.
a. systematic empiricism
b. the principle of falsifiability
c. pseudoscience
d. public verification
Questions that are potentially answerable by means of currently available research techniques are know as _____.
a. systematic empiricism
b. the principle of falsifiability
c. solvable problems
d. public verification
Making observations in a systematic manner to test hypotheses and refute or develop a theory is known as _____.
a. systematic empiricism
b. the principle of falsifiability
c. pseudoscience
d. public verification
The idea that a scientific theory must be stated in such a way that it is possible to refute or disconfirm it is known as the principle of _____.
a. pseudoscience
b. falsifiability
c. public verification
d. systematic empiricism
The scientific approach involves using:
a. intuition, skepticism, and tenacity.
b. tenacity, public verification, and skepticism.
c. systematic empiricism, public verification, and solvable problems.
d. superstition, intuition, and skepticism..
Although Mulder believes in the paranormal, Scully questions the validity of such beliefs because she is a _____.
a. pagan
b. parapsychologist
c. skeptic
d. pseudoscientist
An event or behavior that has at least two values is _____
a. a hypothesis
b. a theory
c. a variable
d. science
Hypothesis is to _____ as theory is to _____.
a. an organized system of assumptions and principles that attempts to explain certain phenomena and how they are related; a prediction regarding the outcome of a study
b. a prediction regarding the outcome of a study; an organized system of assumptions and principles that attempts to explain certain phenomena and how they are related
c. not used in science; used in science
d. used in science; not used in science
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