Scientific Method Quiz
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What is the empirical method for acquiring knowledge that characterizes the development of science?

  • Careful observation and applying rigorous skepticism (correct)
  • Refinement of hypotheses without experimental findings
  • Formulating hypotheses based on intuition
  • Relying on cognitive assumptions for interpretation

    • What is involved in the scientific method as distinguished from a definitive series of steps applicable to all scientific inquiries?

  • Refinement of hypotheses without experimental findings
  • Testability of hypotheses and experimental, measurement-based statistical testing (correct)
  • Formulating hypotheses based on intuition
  • Relying solely on cognitive assumptions for interpretation

    • What does the scientific method involve in terms of formulating hypotheses?

  • Based on cognitive assumptions
  • Via deduction, without careful observation
  • Based on intuition without observation
  • Via induction, based on careful observations (correct)

    • What can distort how one interprets the observation according to the scientific method?

    <p>Cognitive assumptions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the principles of the scientific method in relation to experimental findings?

    <p>Refinement (or elimination) of hypotheses based on the experimental findings (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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