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Gen Bio 1

Terms for GEN Bio exam 1

TermDefinition
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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