PSYC 1001 Final: Chapter 02
4 Sep 2015
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Multiple choice: which goal of science is most closely associated with answering the question of how something works, understanding and prediction, measurement and description, application and control, search for truth. Pts: 1 controlled or observed in a study: confounds, variables, correlations, hypotheses. Pts: 1: what do we call any measurable conditions, events, characteristics, or behaviours that are. Blm: remember: forensic profilers use information about known serial killers to make statements about the likely next-steps of a new killer, and to anticipate a pattern of behaviour. Which goal of the scientific enterprise does this reflect: application and control, measurement and description, understanding and prediction. Pts: 1: which goals of science are reflected in the use of reinforcement principles to modify a child"s unruly behaviour, understanding and prediction, application and control, measurement and description, determinism and teleology. Copyright 2013 nelson education ltd: there are multiple goals in science, and researchers move between goals at various points in their research.
