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21 Cards in this Set
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What does science deal with?
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A set of controlled observations.
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What does data result from?
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Experiments
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[blank], not the scientist, knows best.
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The subject matter.
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The weakness of the appeal to authority as a method for resolving doubt lies in the fact that it ...
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endows authority with more than it can claim.
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Science rejects its own authoritative sources when ...
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data prove them wrong.
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Who didn't accept authoritative source?
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Galileo
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What does neutralism in science demand?
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That we withhold judgment until the data become available.
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What is a very important notion?
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Accepting "as of today"
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What must a scientist be ready to do when data comes in?
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Change conclusions
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T/F: Psychology as a scientific study of behavior is a relatively new science.
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True
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What has been suggested of experimental inquiry?
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The job never ends.
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Does the scientist make announcements or pronouncements?
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Announcements
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How can we modify behavior?
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By manipulating certain consequences of the behavior.
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What is a basic assumption in all science?
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That natural phenomena are determined.
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What does determined mean?
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Every event in the universe has a cause
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What does the knowledge of relationships between events and their causes allow us to do?
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Control the occurrence of future events.
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What should determinism never be identified with?
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Pre-scientific doctrine of Calvinism
Predeterminism Fatalism |
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What can you do if a behavior is determined?
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Change it.
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How do you change a behavior?
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Find the lawful relationship that controls the behavior.
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The term, determinism, as used by behavior scientists, refers to:
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the notion that behavior is lawful
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What have humans not been good at doing?
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Using science in reference to studying their own behavior.
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