PSYC 304 - Unit 1 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Empirical | Based on experience |
| Authority | Based on someone else's knowledge |
| Logic | Based on deductive or inductive reasoning |
| Intuition | Spontaneous perception or judgement not based on reasoned mental steps |
| Common Sense | Practical intelligence shared by a large group of people |
| Counterintuitive | Something that goes against common sense |
| Science | A way of obtaining knowledge by means of objective observations |
| Parisomy | Using the simplest possible explanation |
| Realism | The philosophy that objects perceived have an existence outside the mind |
| Rationality | A view that reasoning is the basis for solving problems |
| Regularity | A belief that phenomena exists in recurring patterns that conform with universal laws |
| Discoverability | The belief that it is possible to learn solutions to questions posed |
| Determinism | The doctrine that all events happen because of preceding causes |
| Temporal Precedence | Something that occurs prior to another thing |
| Co-Variation of Cause and Effect | When the cause is introduced, the effect occurs |
| Probabilistic Co-Variation | Statistical association of a cause with an effect |
| Elimination of Alternative Explanation | No explanation for an effect other than the purported cause if possible |
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