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Gen Bio 1
Terms for GEN Bio exam 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | Measured value to actual values |
| Anomaly | outside of understanding of nature |
| Assumption | Accepted as certain, without proof |
| Bias | prejudice to favor one thing over other |
| Blind experiment | Info which may lead to bias is concealed |
| Burden of Proof | Pressure to prove assumption |
| Causality | Relation between cause and effect |
| Concept | "Things" we experience repeatedly in the natural world |
| Conclusion | Judgement through reasoning |
| Confounding variable | Extraneous variables that change experiment outcome |
| Control | acts as standard |
| Constant | What is not changed |
| Control Group | does not receive measured factor |
| Correlation | relation between things |
| Critical thinking | art of analyzing |
| Data | Recorded observations |
| Deductive reasoning | Specific results from general premise |
| Dependent Variable | What is measured |
| Effect | A change resulting from consequence of an action |
| Empirical | Verified by observation |
| Ethics | Moral principles which govern decision making |
| Expectation | Strong Belief on outcome |
| Experiment | Scientific Test |
| Experimental Group | subjects that have specific factor |
| Explanation | Answer to why |
| Explanatory Power | Make explained data probable |
| Explanatory Scope | How many things theory explains |
| Extraneous Variable | Undesirable variable influencing other variables |
| Extrapolation | reaching conclusion from data outside of range |
| Fact | truth from experience/observation |
| Falsifiable | quality of hypothesis; provable |
| Hypothesis | explanation based on observations |
| Independent Variable | What is changed |
| Inductive Reasoning | generalizations based on large observations |
| Interpretation | explaining the meaning |
| Law | Describes broad phenomenon, not why |
| Logic law 1: | Everything exists |
| Logic law 2: | Nothing can be and not be simultaneously |
| Logica law 3: | everything is can be found why |
| Logic law 4: | preconditions of intelligibility: reliability of our senses, memory |
| Logic | reason by strict values of rigidity |
| Model | representative of phenomenon |
| Negative Control | No phenomenon expected |
| Positive Control | Where phenomenon is expected |
| Precision | How close measured values are to each other |
| Prediction | a forecast following from hypothesis, something that is already happening |
| Principle | fundamental truth or proposition as foundation for belief |
| Prospective Causal Group | emerging, or future progression |
| Reality | The world as it actually exists |
| Reasoning | thinking in a logical way; valid or invalid |
| Repeatability | same device same conditions same measurements |
| Reproducibility | entire study to be reproduced |
| Materialism | everything is just matter |
| reductionism | everything is sum of its parts |
| Science | approach to understanding the natural world (modeling reality) |
| Skepticism | doubt of truth of something |
| naturalism | not observable, doesn't exist |
| Determinism | no free will, everything is predetermined |
| Sound Argument | valid reasoning, is true |
| positivism | everything is God |
| Scientism | science is God |
| Statistically Significant | low probability of effect being caused by chance |
| Suspected Causal Factor | something suspected to cause an effect of interest |
| Tentative | Not certain or fixed |
| Testable | observation/experiment to reveal idea to be true or false |
| Theory | well established/supported explanation of wide breadth |
| Valid | observation both accurate/precise: logic, argument logical |
| Variable | A factor that varies in experiment |
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