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tiffannnnyyyyyy

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on: Jun 20, 2018
Describe what is meant by a functional relation, and provide a concrete example for a human organism.
 
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State and describe each of the different attitudes of science.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answers should include information about a functional relation such as: A functional relation is only achieved through control and involves a specific change in one event (dependent variable), that can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (independent variable, and the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors

Answer to Question 2

Answers should include the attitudes of science: Determinism, Empiricism, Experimentation, Replication, Parsimony, and Philosophic doubt as well as a brief definition for each of the attitudes.


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