WSU Biology 102 Exam 1 Carlyole Exam Study Guide Graded A 2024

Q What types of questions cannot be explored using scientific methods? - Is God real? What is the meaning of life? Anything that can't be experimented. Q What types of questions can science be used to explore? - Any question, prediction that an be tested in a scientific experiment. What is a hypothesis? - An idea about the outcome of an experiment. Logical explanation for observations of the natural world. Q Science is limited to hypotheses that can be falsified. What does this mean? - That Hypotheses must be made so that they can be proven either right or wrong, true or false. Hypothesis testing yields the facts of science. What is a scientific fact? - A repeatable observation of the natural world. Confirmed result of an experiment. What is a "theory" in science? - An explanation of a group of related hypothesis that has been repeatedly confirmed by diverse lines of evidence. Why does science never claim to have proven a hypothesis? - Because the hypothesis may be supported by evidence but it is not proven to be true. Q What language do they used when the data indicate their hypothesis is true? - Supported Define correlation - Two or more aspects of the natural world behave in a interrelated manner. If one shows a particular value, we can predict a value for the other aspect. Define causation - The action of causing something. Correlation does not establish causation. Experimental Treatment - Those who are exposed to the independent variable Control Treatment - Those who experience everything except the variable being tested Scientific experiment Independant variable? - Is manipulated by the investigator Scientific Experiment Dependent Variable?