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Why are manipulative studies favored over observational studies?

What is reductionism?

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What is reductionism?
Understanding a system by looking at it's smaller components
Understanding a system by looking at it as a whole
Understanding the basics of biology
Understanding a system by looking larger to smaller
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Why are manipulative studies favored over observational studies?
They are more scientific
Man. studies can demonstrate cause-effect relationships
Ob. studies can demonstrate cause-effect relationships
One is not favored over another
3
A theory is......
tentative explanation that has not been confirmed
Explanations that has been tested without being falsified
Same as a hypothesis
Many explanations that are not confirmed
4
A hypothesis is...
A tentative explanation that is confirmed but not falsified
Explanations that has been tested without being falsified
An educated guess
A tentative explanation that has not been confirmed
5
What is the process in which scientific understanding advances by eliminating bad hypotheses?
Hypthetico-deductive method
Induction
Deduction
Falsification
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What is the major difference between science and other forms of knowing?
Using deduction and induction
Empirical falsification
There is no difference
Proving a hypothesis
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True or false: test predictions are based off Deductions, not inductions.
True
False
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True or False: Correlation always leads to causation
False
True
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True or false: Is anything ever "scientifically proven?"
False
True
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What are the two levels ALL biological phenomena can be explained by:
Proximate causation and naive realism
Hypotheses and theories
Ultimate causation and falsifiability
Proximate and ultimate causation