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According to Karl Popper, a discipline that claims to be a science is really a

pseudoscience like astrology if it:
According to Karl Popper, a discipline that claims to be a science is really a
pseudoscience like astrology if it:
Select one:
a. gives rise to no experiments
b. offers no refutable predictions
c. can offer no facts in its support
d. is not true

The correct answer is: offers no refutable predictions

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A good example of a concept that is a social construction and yet can still be an
object of scientific study is:
A good example of a concept that is a social construction and yet can still be an
object of scientific study is:
Select one:
a. atoms
b. money
c. neurons
d. a hammer

The correct answer is: money

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Concerning the tension between reasons and causes in history of science, the
Whig history of science has tended to overestimate ___________ viewing history
of science as ________.
Concerning the tension between reasons and causes in history of science, the
Whig history of science has tended to overestimate ___________ viewing history
of science as ________.
Select one:
a. reasons, seeing history as a fairy tale like series of progressive steps
leading to current enlightenment.
b. cause, seeing history as the result of random forces ending in current
confusion.
c. social forces, a social institution that is void of individual struggle and
triumph.
d. paradigms, the result of revolutions.

The correct answer is: reasons, seeing history as a fairy tale like series of
progressive steps leading to current enlightenment.
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If a scientist believes that his or her theory may actually be true, then he or she is
a(n):
If a scientist believes that his or her theory may actually be true, then he or she is
a(n):
Select one:
a. instrumentalist
b. revolutionary
c. realist
d. positivist

The correct answer is: realist

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In a Kuhn's view of science, __________ provides scientists with a blueprint and

foundation for scientific enterprises.
In a Kuhn's view of science, __________ provides scientists with a blueprint and
foundation for scientific enterprises.
Select one:
a. the falsification test
b. a paradigm
c. anomalies
d. the covering law

The correct answer is: a paradigm

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In the Hempel and Oppenheim covering-law model of explanation, explanation is

basically the same as:
In the Hempel and Oppenheim covering-law model of explanation, explanation is
basically the same as:
Select one:
a. control
b. superstition
c. prediction
d. understanding

The correct answer is: prediction

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The author of the text notes that recent history of science tends to be more
_______, considering science within a larger social-historical context and pattern.
The author of the text notes that recent history of science tends to be more
_______, considering science within a larger social-historical context and pattern.
Select one:
a. Whiggish and rationale
b. internalist
c. externalist.
d. from the Great Man Perspective

The correct answer is: externalist.

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Which of the following is most clearly a reason-as opposed to a cause-for Bill

murdering Sam?
Which of the following is most clearly a reason-as opposed to a cause-for Bill
murdering Sam?
Select one:
a. Bill had a brain tumor.
b. Bill wanted to marry Sam's wife.
c. Bill was high on PCP (Phencyclidine) at the time.
d. Bill had schizophrenia and thought Sam was a dangerous Martian invader.

The correct answer is: Bill wanted to marry Sam's wife.

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Which of the following is the BEST example of an operational definition?

Which of the following is the BEST example of an operational definition?
Select one:
a. Intelligence is a score on an IQ test.
b. The superego is the moral component of personality.
c. Neurotics tend to be anxious.
d. Atoms are the smallest particles of matter.

The correct answer is: Intelligence is a score on an IQ test.

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While the conceptual foundations of psychology came from philosophy, the

inspiration for the creation of an independent science of psychology came from:
While the conceptual foundations of psychology came from philosophy, the
inspiration for the creation of an independent science of psychology came from:
Select one:
a. Chemistry
b. Mathematics
c. Religion
d. Biology

The correct answer is: Biology