List the steps of the scientific method in their correct order and describe what occurs in each step.
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Generate Ideas, when you identify a problem. (2) Formulate a Hypothesis, when you create a testable prediction. (3) Test the Hypothesis, when you design and conduct a study. (4) Draw Conclusions, when you analyze the findings. (5) Share the Findings, when you publish or present your data.
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A psychologist gives a group of participants 20 personality tests. He looks at the correlations between each test and each of the other 19 (a total of 180 correlation coefficients). He finds two correlations that are statistically significant—that is, that his statistical tests tell him would not occur more than five times out of 100 . What should the psychologist conclude from his study?
A. The two statistically significant correlations probably represent "real" relationships. B. The tests he used probably were not valid. C. The two statistically significant correlations might very well be chance findings. D. The tests he used may not be reliable.
Science is an enterprise that:
a. leads to the accumulation of absolute facts. b. is concerned with the description, explanation, prediction, and control of events. c. leads to the accumulation of systematized knowledge based on speculation. d. is pursued by impersonal and bias-free scientists.
Consciousness is the __________.
A. state of arousal involving facial and bodily changes B. awareness of ourselves and the environment C. memory of personally experienced events D. intentional recollection of an item of information
In the context of fertility, the average American woman needs to have _____ children for a couple to be at "replacement level," because some children will not survive to reproduce
A) 2.01 B) 3.65 C) 2.11 D) 3.01