Kinesiology 1080A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Extrafusal Muscle Fiber, Gamma Motor Neuron, Alpha Motor Neuron
11 Apr 2014
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Science: knowledge about, or study of, the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation (webster"s dictionary: science is a process (checklist) A science checklist: focuses on aims to explain aspects of the natural world, uses testable ideas, relies on evidence, leads to other research (doesn"t always have to too, it (ideally) has no bias. Benefits and outcomes: what has come about after explorations. Exploration and discovery: need to pay attention to scientific policy. What is an experiment: tool for determining nature of a relationship between variables or how one variable directly influences another, confirm or disconfirm hypothesis, manipulate and observe the effects of a variable on another variable. Independent variables: the variable that changes to explain differences in the dependent variable. Dependent variables: variable of interest, the outcome measure. Someone tells i. o. c president that people react faster to a. Go light instead of a shot gun because light travels faster than sound.
