3 Levels of Scientific Understanding.
3 levels of scientific understanding (DPC)
ans: description, prediction, control
Description ans: Systematic observations that can be quantified and classified
NOT casual explanations
Ex: # of praise statements made by teachers in a classroom
Predicition ans: 2 events may regularly occur at same time - does not mean one necessarily causes the
other
AKA correlation, covariation
Ex: when the weather is hot, there are more drowning deaths, this is correlation - we cannot assume hot
weather causes drowning deaths
Control ans: Functional relation
The highest level of scientific understanding
experimental demonstration that manipulating 1 event (IV) results in another event (DV).
AKA Causation
3 levels of scientific understanding (DPC)
ans: description, prediction, control
Description ans: Systematic observations that can be quantified and classified
NOT casual explanations
Ex: # of praise statements made by teachers in a classroom
Predicition ans: 2 events may regularly occur at same time - does not mean one necessarily causes the
other
AKA correlation, covariation
Ex: when the weather is hot, there are more drowning deaths, this is correlation - we cannot assume hot
weather causes drowning deaths
Control ans: Functional relation
The highest level of scientific understanding
experimental demonstration that manipulating 1 event (IV) results in another event (DV).
AKA Causation
