Vaughn - Concise Guide to Critical Thinking - Chapter 09 Student Quiz

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. Science seeks to acquire knowledge and understanding of reality through the formulation, testing, and evaluating of...

Deductive reasoning correct incorrect

Theories correct incorrect

Technology correct incorrect

Scientific method correct incorrect

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. The scientific method cannot be identified with any particular set of experimental or observational...

Parameters correct incorrect

Goals correct incorrect

Formulas correct incorrect

Procedures correct incorrect

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. Scientific inquiry begins with...

A problem to solve or a question to answer correct incorrect

Observation correct incorrect

Laboratory tests correct incorrect

A checklist of procedures correct incorrect

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. To test a hypothesis, scientists must...

Not reason deductively correct incorrect

Accurately predict the outcome of tests correct incorrect

Ignore test implications of the hypothesis correct incorrect

Derive a test implication from the hypothesis correct incorrect

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. In double-blind experiments...

Test results are unacceptable correct incorrect

Neither the subjects nor experimenters know who receives the real treatment correct incorrect

Only the experimenters know who receives the real treatment correct incorrect

Placebos are not used correct incorrect

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. The criterion of conservatism is a measure of...

How well a theory fits with existing knowledge correct incorrect

The amount of diverse phenomena explained correct incorrect

The number of novel predictions made correct incorrect

The number of assumptions made correct incorrect

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. Something is logically impossible if...

It violates a law of science correct incorrect

It violates a principle of logic correct incorrect

It cannot be tested correct incorrect

It is difficult to understand correct incorrect

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. Something is physically impossible if...

It violates a law of science correct incorrect

It violates a principle of logic correct incorrect

It has never before been observed correct incorrect

It is weird correct incorrect

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. Generally eyewitness testimony pertaining to paranormal phenomena is...

Reliable correct incorrect

Scarce correct incorrect

Unreliable correct incorrect

Valid correct incorrect