PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Institutional Review Board, Blood Pressure, World Medical Association
19 Oct 2016
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Science is about testing ideas regarding the world by observing the world (collecting data) Thus using those observations to determine whether the idea is supported. As you can see, this requires observation and logic. There are three distinct flavors" to science: physical: natural science/things, biological: plants and animals, social: people. Science is as much a way of thinking as it is a process. The cognitive skills required to generate, test, and revise theories. The repetition of a study to confirm (or in some cases disconfirm) Unlike in previous decades, there is not a clear contributing factor: however, there are multiple hypotheses, including . The teen birth rate is on the decline (9. 2% nationally in 2012 and an additional 10% in. A set of related assumptions from which testable predictions can be made. Theories are constructed after hypotheses are made and tested.
