...hypothesis and intuition 3. The supporter- Einstein (using his examples as detailed ones) 4. The other famous successful discoveries in four different fields: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography (describing the main story of each example) 5. How should we treat the intuition? What should we do after the intuition? 6. The conclusion includes 1) The importance of the intuition, 2) The significant role it has acted in the history of science, 3) Its efficiency of finding a certain answer, 4) An interesting analogy to show the role of intuition Body: * How important the intuition is! It seems a coincident chance that I came up with this idea. It was an afternoon that I was searching the background information of the experiment 4&5 (about the magnetism) on the Internet. But the Wikipedia just sounds weird because it said that: In 1821, soon after Oersted discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Faraday started to think that...
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...discussed in the framework of mind/body problem. While in the times of Aristotle and Plato it was named differently and explained through objects materiality and soul divinity, the modern perception of the same correlation was emphasized by Descartes as body/mind problem. In the present paper, the essence of the problem is outlined in the context of one of the modern philosophies of mind, meaning physicalism. The main aims of this essay is to identify the corner stone of physicalist concept, its main supporting and opposing arguments, and distinguish which position is the strongest one and understand the reason why. Key words: physicalism, body/mind problem, knowledge, exclusion, consciousness. What is mind? In the history of human thought, there were various dilemmas which the brightest minds of their times were trying to solve and which remained enigmas until our times. The mind/body problem is one of those issues. While, in times of Aristotle and Plato, it was named differently and explained through the objects materiality and soul divinity, the modern perception of the same correlation was shaped by Descartes as body/mind problem. In the present paper, the essence of the problem is explained in the context of one of the modern philosophies of mind, meaning physicalism. The main aims of this essay is to identify the corner stone of physicalist concept, its main supporting and opposing arguments, and distinguish which argument is the strongest and why. First of all, it...
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...RES/351 Week Three Terminology Exercise v 1.91 Student Name: Chose the response which best answers the question or completes the statement (14 questions). Please enter your response in the green box below the answers "1. This type of study is very popular among businesses, and answers the questions, “who, what, when, and where”." a. Reporting b. Explanatory c. Predictive d. Descriptive Answer 2. The key reason for conducting research in business is: a. To support the decision-making process. b. To discover the root cause of an event. c. To cope with information overload. d. To look for new business opportunities. Answer 3. If a company is trying to anticipate customer reaction to a new marketing campaign, what should it do? a. Conduct a reporting study on other companies in the area and how they market their products. b. Use computer software tools to create an affinity relationship diagram for your potential customers "c. Conduct a predictive study based on the proposed relationship between the elements of the campaign and customer actions" d. Use “data-mining” of company data to uncover previously-unknown relationships ...
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...Assignment Final Project Complete the Final Project Science Meets Real Life Whether you think of yourself as an up and coming scientist or not, you use science every day. You will explore how you apply different aspects of science in your daily life in a two part project. In 1,500-words (minimum), discuss the following: PART I: SCIENTIFIC METHOD Each and every day, we are faced with having to make split-second decisions, and the need to solve random problems that we encounter. To reach those decisions and work those problems out you are subconsciously using the scientific method. Apply the five steps of the Scientific Method to two situations that could occur in your everyday life. Use the scientific method in the first scenario provided below to solve the problem at hand. Please come up with a second detailed scenario on your own and follow the same steps in the scientific method to find a resolution. Scenario 1: You arrive home late at night. You walk up to the front door, unlock it, and reach in to turn on the light switch located just inside the front door. The light does not come on! Now what? Scenario 2: Develop your own detailed problem/observation and apply the scientific method to solve. PART II: WHY I CANNOT LIVE WITH/WITHOUT SCIENCE As you have seen throughout this course, science is intricately interwoven with our lives: in the food we eat, in the clothes we wear, in the computers we use for this course, science has had a hand in them all. Answer...
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...DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY3 JOHN M. BARLEY BIBB LATANfi New York University Columbia University Ss overheard an epileptic seizure. They believed either that they alone heard the emergency, or that 1 or 4 unseen others were also present. As predicted the presence of other bystanders reduced the individual's feelings of personal responsibility and lowered his speed of reporting (p < .01). In groups of size 3, males reported no faster than females, and females reported no slower when the 1 other bystander was a male rather than a female. In general, personality and background measures were not predictive of helping. Bystander inaction in real-life emergencies is often explained by "apathy," "alienation," and "anomie." This experiment suggests that the explanation may lie more in the bystander's response to other observers than in his indifference to the victim. Several years ago, a young woman was stabbed to death in the middle of a street in a residential section of New York City. Although such murders are not entirely routine, the incident received little public attention until several weeks later when the New York Times disclosed another side to the case: at least 38 witnesses had observed the attack— and none had even attempted to intervene. Although the attacker took more than half an hour to kill Kitty Genovese, not one of the 38 people who watched from the safety of their own apartments came out to assist her. Not one even lifted the telephone...
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...Animal testing is wrong for various reasons. An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Examples of animal testing include: forcing mice and rats to inhale toxic fumes, force-feeding dog’s pesticides, and dripping chemicals into rabbits’ eyes. Animal experiments are not the same as taking your pet to the vet. Innocent animals used in laboratories are deliberately harmed, for a company’s benefit, and are usually killed at the end of the experiment. Everyone should care about animal’s rights because innocent animals are killed every day for no good reason. Some reasons why include, but are not limited to: alternative...
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...Examine the reasons why some sociologists choose to use experiments when conducting research. Study the reason why sociologist prefer to use experimental methods when carrying out a research There are many different types of experiments that can be conducted by sociologist, in order to help with the research that they are planning to carry out or just to help further prove their hypothesis. There are three main experimental methods that sociologists may choose to carry out their research/study. These three experimental methods are: Natural, field and Comparative. Each of these experiments has their own advantages and disadvantages. These positive and negative factors can analysed by practical, ethical and theoretical limitations and strengths that can be considered. This essay will be looking at each of these in detail. But, firstly what is an experiment? An experiment is a way of investigation a cause and effect relationship between independent variable and dependent variable. The first type of experiment that sociologist may choose to use in their research is, laboratory experiment. Laboratory experiments are conducted in a control setting, (this means that IV (The independent variable) and DV (dependent variable) can be controlled and manipulated by the researcher). Participant are given instruction to carry out certain tasks, in a normally manner. From this, the researchers are able to observe behaviour and be able to see cause and affect relationship between variables...
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...uncovering the mysteries of human and animal behavior are descriptions, explanations, prediction and control. Descriptions involve observing and taking notes on a behavior and explanation helps create theories. Prediction helps find out what might happen later on or in the future and finally, control seeks to find out how we can take a behavior we do not like and change it into one that we do. 2. Psychologists use the Scientific Method in research design so that they can reduce the amount of any kind of bias that could affect the research. They also use it to reduce the amount of errors in the experiment that might lead to inaccurate results. 3. Replication is taking a study and doing it over and over in the exact same way and managing to get the same results each time. This is important because it lends credibility to their research and allows other people who replicate the experiment an opportunity to predict behaviors and possibly control them. 4. Naturalistic Observation involves watching people in their normal everyday activities without getting involved. You would conduct this observation by going to their home and observing them live their lives without speaking or interacting with them. 5. In a case study you would gather all the information you could about the individual in extensive detail from birth to present. To conduct this you would have access to their medical records, interviews with their friends and family, school records, etc… 6. You would use a case study...
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...select their food based on color. Controlled Experimental Method: This test will include three bird feeders made of the same material, same size, placed at the same height but three different colors; red, blue, and green. Hummingbird feeders are made of glass or plastic. The feeders will be hung outside in the bird’s normal feeding environment near the woods. All three feeders will be filled with the same source and amount of water and equal amounts of sugar so that only the color will differentiate them apart. The feeders will be hung out for one week and observed at the same times of day. The times chosen were morning and dusk; 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Results: Since this is a "thought experiment," you will make up results according to what you think might happen if you actually did the experiment. Results should include detailed raw data (numbers) rather than just a summary of the results. For example, if data are collected...
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...SC250-05: Science for Everyday Life Unit 9 Assignment August 05, 2014 When I hear the word “scientist” there are multiple things that run through my thoughts. I picture someone in a lab coat trying to discover a cure to a disease like cancer or the next plague that comes along. There is this image of dry ice coming out of test tubes and beakers surrounding them. Maybe even a bunch of stressed out yuppie looking guys who had way too much coffee, desperately trying to find the vaccine to stop the zombie apocalypse. I also picture Beaker from the Muppet show. He did a wonderful job forming an image of what a scientist probably was to me as a child. He was insecure and he made a mess. My cousin is a scientist so then there is an image of this very stern but sarcastic guy testing and testing and retesting. That image sounds so boring but I’m grateful there are brilliant minds like him out there. Scientist come in many different forms. They study and discover many different things. Over time there have been many types of scientist and they weren’t all wearing lab coats. Leonardo da Vinci was one I found interesting due to my love of art. He combined art and science in his sketches. He has amazing futuristic designs and even envisioned flight. Sadly he was a chronic procrastinator and had frequent disasters with his experiments of new techniques (Leonadoda-Vinci). Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who developed the telescopes and started to observe the solar system...
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...rung and class was over. The next day had come, with fourth period science just around the corner. Once the bell had rung for fourth period Mrs.Barrett started the lesson. She told the class that they were going to be creating mini volcanoes. After that announcement Mrs.Barrett told the class that she was going to show them a presentation on the experiment. Once she had given that they could get started. The presentation had covered the directions for the lab and the materials that were needed. They needed to grab a red tub that had contained the flask for the volcanoes. They also needed to get a cup of baking soda and a beaker full of vinegar. In...
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...Social Psychology and Multicultural Psychology Jennifer Wolf Psych/620 Instructor- Jean Thorndike Social Psychology and Multicultural Psychology This paper defines social psychology and multicultural psychology. Described within will be the primary research strategies used in social psychology. Provided will be examples of each strategy. An explanation regarding how social and multicultural psychology are related and what separates social and multicultural psychology into two distinct fields will be provided. Social Psychology Social psychology is “the scientific attempt to explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings” (Fiske S. , 2010). Social psychology tries to explain how an individual reacts to another individual whether the individual is present or not. Social psychology also attempts to explain how an individual acts in a group setting as well as how an individual acts when a person (s) of authority is (are) present. Primary Research Srategies1 The three primary research strategies used in social psychology are descriptive research, correlational research, and experimental research (Fiske S. , 2010) Descriptive research “aims to depict accurately some characteristic in a population of interest” (Fiske S. , 2010). Descriptive research deals with one variable at a time and averages the responses to said variable. For example, a public opinion survey such as...
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...US Statistics states, roughly 11-25 million animals are used in conjunction with research, more specifically the testing process. When it comes to animal testing there are several environmental conditions that are affected and bypassed by several individual, or research facilities. It is important to recognize and understand the negative consequences of animal testing with regards to our environment. It is essential that the effects of animal testing on the environment be brought to light on a factual level as opposed to an opinionated thought. Through the years there has been exponential growth in the use of animals in experiments, especially with the testing of soon to be consumer products. This noticeable and documented increase has directly impacted environmental pollution. This expansion of animal testing, has created laboratories to produce more byproducts. While the majority of laboratories do not participate in recycle programs, developing an amplification of waste in the environment. Bedding, needles, syringes, and other biohazards are not disposed of properly because of the lack of laboratories using the recycle...
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...viewed. (Fazio & Roskos –Ewoldsen, 1994 P. 85) Accessibility Theory complements the Reasoned Action Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior approach because people carefully consider the consequence of behaving in a particular manner and weigh out the pros and cons of situation. When all else fails the decision is based more on spontaneity, channeling a thought or memory. The decisions however can also be based on how accessible attitudes are and how likely objects, good or bad can capture the attention of a person. Research supports these propositions (Krays, 1995) because studies found that individuals who were in touch with favorable attitudes toward a certain topic or product were more inclined to select or choose those with less accessible attitudes. Attitudes play a very important role because they range from strong attitudes to weak attitudes. When a person has a strong attitude toward something most likely the persons mind is made up and set in his or her ways. Vice versa with a weaker attitude which is more susceptible to change. When strong and weak attitudes are already implemented in the mind, thought and memory are automatically activated. Accessibility is also known as “getting in touch with your feelings”. This also can be described as association. Accessibility and association go hand in hand because the more frequently that people mentally remember the association between an object and evaluation the stronger...
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...Question. The Observation and Questioning step is very important. In this step we look at what we want to do an experiment on. In the Hypothesis step, you guesstimate what the outcome of the experiment will be. I feel that the Testing step is self-explanatory. In this step you perform your experiment and test the hypothesis you came up with in the previous step. After you perform your experiment, you have the Results step. This is where you have your outcome. If your outcome supports your hypothesis, then you are able to go onto the next step of the process. But there are times that your outcome will be different than your hypothesis, if this is the case you go back to the beginning of the process. If this happens, you have to do all of the steps all over again. Next we have the Explanation step. You need to figure out an explanation that addresses the question that you are experimenting. The final step is the New Question step. Here you come up with the conclusion to your experiment. Quite often your conclusion could lead to a whole new set of questions, in which would lead to new experiments (Axia College, n.d.). For the online experiment, I picked the question of “Have you ever wondered why the plant grows toward the window?” For my hypothesis I chose, “plants respond to the light which they need to make their food.” My prediction for this experiment was “If it is true that plants respond to the light which they need to make their food and I grow three plants...
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