Scientific+Method

= Definition: = Orderly, systematic procedures that researchers follow as they identify a research problem, design a study to investigate the problem, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate their findings. pp3 Gen Psych, Chapter 1, Pg. 3toc

= Examples: = For any area of study to be considered a science, researchers must obtain their information by the scientific method. The scientific method allows scientists to more definitively and accurately determine if there is a cause and effect relationship between two variables.

= Analogies: = The scientific method is to a science as hair is to mammals. Scientific method is to hypothesis as eggs are to birds

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=In the News:= [|What journalists can learn from scientists and the scientific method] The scientific method — the foundation of modern science — was a way to systematize knowledge production. Once discovered, it became a discovery-producing machine. Humankind had developed a way to both ask better questions about the nature of the world and to continually find better answers to those questions. Soon, the tools of this discovery-producing machine began to improve...

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