Flash Cards For Chapter 1

Front 1

pressupositions:

Back 1

basic assumptions that a person makes about the world that helps him to investigate the world and understand it from a certain point of view.

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bias:

Back 2

an inclination one has about an idea after thinking about its pros and cons.

Front 3

prejudice:

Back 3

is like a bias, but a person holds to it without thinking about it and it is often unreasonable.

Front 4

phenomenon:

Back 4

(something that appears) ; a phenomenon is anything observable or measurable .

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model:

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is a workable explination or discribtion its not complete or accurate or even necessarily true. the best models are those that are most useful and helps us to work toward new knowledge

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theory:

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an accepted model that explains something. a theory must agree with the presupositions of the scientific world view.

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scientific law:

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a model that describes a phenomenon but doesnt or cant explian it. a law describes things that seem to hold true under sertian conditions

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operational science:

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examines phenomenons that exist or occur in the present such science observes and tests phenomena repeaditly to confirm a model.

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historical science

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studies phenomena that happened in the unobserved past and that are not happening today (to our knowledge).

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hypothesis

Back 10

when a scientist calls his initial model to explain the phenonmenon that he is studying a ___________.

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scientific process

Back 11

a scientist actually uses depends on what he wants to study

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data

Back 12

information collected through observation and often used as the basic for scientific models

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secular

Back 13

a disciption of someone of an idea that is not influenced by religious principles

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wold view

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is influenced by our religious beliefs trianing family life enxperience and education