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22 Cards in this Set
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Early Greeks- 3 terms |
Philosophy, logic, moral order |
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Philosophy |
Love of knowledge. Knowledge should be valued, collected, and organized |
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What organizes knowledge? |
Theories |
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Logic |
Information should be collected and utilized by rational thought |
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2 types of logic |
Inductive and deductive |
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Inductive |
Reasons from a specific case (observations) to the general (all) |
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Deductive |
Reasons from the general case to the specific |
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Moral order |
The assumption that there exists ultimate rules, laws, and principals that govern the functioning of the universe = things happen for a reason |
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Middle ages views |
Authoritarian |
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Authoritarian |
Your have to believe what the authority tells you to believe |
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Renaissance view & person |
Empiricism, brain is wired by experience with environment. Frances Bacon |
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Model of scientific method |
Empiricism |
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Empiricism process |
Use inductive logic to make a generalization then use deductive logic to formulate a hypothesis. Then test the hypothesis. |
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2 functions of generalization |
1. Explain what you observe 2. Generate testable hypothesis |
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A law |
A set of generalizations to which there are no known exceptions |
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A theory |
A set of generalizations logically related to one another that explains your observations and generates testable hypothesis |
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What do theorists provide? |
The best approximation to the "truth" (moral order) given the empiricism (research) preformed to some point in time |
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In order to get "good facts" we use |
The empirical method |
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3 characteristics for "good facts" |
1. Reliability 2. Validity 3. Power |
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Validity |
The goodness with which a concrete event defines a property |
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Realibility |
Tendency for an instrument to produce the same measurement whenever it is used to measure the same thing |
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Power |
An instruments ability to detect small magnitudes of the property |
