AP PSYCHOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Three key elements of the scientific attitude are
A
pride, enthusiasm, and ingenuity.
B
ingenuity, practicality, and certainty.
C
certainty, creativity, and curiosity.
D
curiosity, skepticism, and humility.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1-2 The three elements are curiosity, skepticism and humility. Curiosity helps us form and test predictions, skepticism helps us to question the answers that researchers find, and humility helps us to admit when we might be wrong and to accept new ideas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scientific attitude, according to Mukhopadhyay (2014), has three main components: belief, sensation, and action.

Detailed explanation-3: -What are the three key elements of the scientific attitude, and how do they support scientific inquiry? curiosity, skepticism, humility.

Detailed explanation-4: -skepticism, curiosity, and humility. Curiosity, skepticism, and humility helped make modern science possible (historians of science say). examines assumptions, assesses the source, discerns hidden values, confirms evidence, and assesses conclusions.

Detailed explanation-5: -These attitudes include curiosity, honesty in the recording and validation of data, flexibility, persistence, open-mindedness, willingness to tolerate uncertainty, and an acceptance of the provisional nature of scientific explanation. These are the features that characterise scientific thinking.

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