Topics of this game:
- The scientific method is a part of the scientific process
- Body of knowledge and process
- What two qualities must a hypothesis possess?
- The control group in an experiment is the group that is NOT being tested on.
- A prejudiced presentation of material.
- Explains the natural world
- Describe the natural world
- Hypotheses becomes theories which become laws
- Can experimental results prove a hypothesis?
- A hypothesis must offer an explanation, a prediction uses the hypothesis to forecast what is going to happen
- Investigation that takes place in a controlled environment
- Can be collected from nature, but can also be data and results from the existing body of science
- Variables that are held constant between groups
- Looks the same as and is administered the same as the real treatment being tested
- Does not receive a placebo or no treatment
- Variable being measured
- Variables that we are unable to control
- Participants do not know which group they are in, but the researcher does
- Neither the researcher or the participants know which groups the participants are in
- Offers a tentative explanation for the observations we make
- Explanation
- Peer-reviewed by three anonymous scientists before publication
- The real process of science is complex
- The real process of science is not pre-determined
