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Frage | Antworten |
Intuition | Intuition The act of process of coming to direct knowledge or certainty without reasoning or inferring. - Seen in the process of forming hypothesis |
Problem with Intuition? | It does not provide a mechanism for separating accurate from inaccurate knowledge |
Authority | A basis for acceptance of information, because it is acquired from a highly respected source. |
Problem with authority? | Information or facts stated by authority may be wrong/inaccurate |
Consult someone of authority for your study when...... | - Beginning stages to assess the hypothesis as testable - Design stage if you are unsure how to test a variable - You do not know how to interpret data |
Rationalism | The acquisition of knowledge through reasoning Knowledge is acquired if the correct reasoning process is used |
" I think there for I am" | Rene Descartes - Rationalism - 16th Century |
Problem with rationalism | Not uncommon for two well-meaning and honest individuals to reach different conclusions |
Rationalism is used for..... | Reasoning to derive hypotheses Identify the outcomes that would identify the truth or falsity of the hypotheses |
Empiricism | The acquisition of knowledge through experience. "If I have experienced something, then iti s valid and true" |
Induction | A reasoning process that involves going from the specific to the general |
Deduction | A reasoning process that involves going from the general to the specific |
Hypothesis testing | The process of testing a predicted relationship of hypothesis making observations and then comparing the observed facts with the hypothesis or predicted relationships |
Falsificationism | A deductive approach to science that focuses on falsifying hypotheses as the key criterion of science. |
Karl Popper | Falsifying/Falsificationism |
Aristotle Francis Bacon Issac Newtown | Induction |
Duhem-Quine Principle | The idea that a hypothesis vcannot be tested in isolation (i.e:Without making additional assumptions) |
Hybrid approach to hypothesis testing | -Probabilistic thinking -Preponderance of evidence -Mixture of the positivists' verification approach and Popper's falsification approach |
Naturalism | Popular in behavioural science stating that science should justify it's practices according to how well they work(Evaluate our theories based on their empirical adequacy - does the theory make accurate predictions, data support the theory & does the theory provide a good casual explanation of the phenomenon |
Thomas Kuhn | Suggested that science reflects two types of activities -Normal Science Revolutionary Science |
Normal Science | Thomas Kuhn The period in which scientific activity is governed by a singled paradigm or a set of concepts, values, perceptions and practices shared by a community that forms a particular view of reality. |
Revolutionary Science | Thomas Kuhn A period in which scientific activity is characterised by the replacement of one paradigm with another |
Paul Feverabend | - Argues anything goes in science -Science included many irrational practices -There is no such thing as the method of science, science has many methods |
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