SAS 30 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Scientific Method, Universal Veil, Germination

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Science and Society
• Course: SAS 30
• Professor: Gordon Tom

Document Summary

Direct acquisition of knowledge includes personal observation and experimentation. Indirect acquisition of knowledge includes reading and listening: people gain new knowledge through experimentation. National security, human health, and future economic growth motivates countries to provide funding for basic and applied research. Properly matched experimental subjects are usually the same age, gender, and health condition to eliminate variables within an experiment. Beauty and elegance imply meaning, suggest hypotheses, and influence the direction and outcome of research. Theory different from hypothesis because comprehensive explanation that has been supported by facts gathered over time. Epidemiological evidence uses observations of patterns and correlations to draw conclusions and no experiment is actually performed. Animal surrogate studies are used to determine the effects of medicines/diseases on humans because they are often biochemically similar to humans. Imagination allows people to create leaps in logic and make new connections that can lead to new insights.