Features of Science

• what is the first key feature of science?

  • hypothesis testing
• How to test hypothesis testing?

  • use the scientific process
  • if hypothesis does not match result...adjust hypothesis
• what Is the second feature of science

  empirical evidence
• what is empirical evidence?


  information collected through direct observation
• third feature of science

  falsifiability
• what does falsifiability mean?

  • possible for the hypothesis to be proven false
• Fourth feature of science:

  replicability
• what does replicability mean?

  repeating the study to re-test the hypothesis
• what is the 5th feature of science?

  • control
• what is a control group

  level of IV which is not manipulated by the researcher
• extraneous variable 


  something other than what we're studying which affects the DV
• cofounding variable


  type of extraneous variable

  it varies according to the level of the IV.
• 6th feature of science:

  • objectivity
• what is objectivity?


  does not let personal bias affect results
• what is the 7th feature of science?

  theory
• what is theory construction?

  at constructed explanation that is backed up by all features of science