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KNOWLEDGE
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KNOWLEDGE
Common ways of knowing
- Less reliability
- Tenacity: to believe that something is true because always believed it to be true
- Superstitions
- Prejudies
- Ituition: without relying on either reason or inference. Based on an appeal to proposition felt to be obvious
- Authority: a proposition could be true because it is made by a respectable person or expert
- Tenacity: to believe that something is true because always believed it to be true
- Traditional methods
- Personal experience: information that people acquire through
- Interacting with other people
- Conclude their experience
- Rationalism: we can acquire knowledge if we use the correct reasoning procedure
- Personal experience: information that people acquire through
- Higher reliability
- Scientific method
- The main objective is to expand knowledge characterized by a theoretical building
- Elements
- Hypotesis formation
- Data collection
- Empirical hypothesis testing
- Theoretical modification
- Ideal for generating reliable knowledge
- Physical, natural and social sciences
- Purposes of science: Help to understand the world around us
- Understanding is the hability to:
- Description: Describe characteristics of a population or phenomenom being studied
- Prediction: stating what will happen in the future
- Control: uncover relationships between causes and effects, and if it is possible to manipulate the causes
- Explanation: stating why some relationship exist
- Understanding is the hability to:
- Objectivity: measures the degree to which scientific findings are independent of any one person´s opinion
- Purposes of science: Help to understand the world around us
- Physical, natural and social sciences
- The nature of the Scientific process
- Theory: a set of interrelated constructs, definitions, and propositions that present a systematic view of phenomena by specifying relations among variables
- Hypothesis: a specific, estable prediction, derived typically from a theory
- Verification: scientists assess the degree to wich hypotheses based on theories match empirical data
- Data reliability: they must be free of random errors
- Data Validity: must be assess
- Verification: scientists assess the degree to wich hypotheses based on theories match empirical data
- Implicit theories: informal about phenomena that people rarely test in rigorous, empirical fashion
- Explicit theories: formal theories that are subject to empirical test
- Hypothesis: a specific, estable prediction, derived typically from a theory
- Theory: a set of interrelated constructs, definitions, and propositions that present a systematic view of phenomena by specifying relations among variables
- Scientific method
- Less reliability