Skip to main content

Scientific Method

Scientific Method -A process of conducting experiments to test if a hypothesis is true or false. 

The scientific method is generally performed with 6 steps:

1) Purpose/Question- Ask a question.

2)Research- Conduct background research. Interview experts on a topic. The more you know about a subject, the easier it will be to conduct your investigation.

3) Hypothesis - Propose a hypothesis. Usually, a hypothesis is written in terms of cause and effect.

4) Experiment- Design and perform an experiment to test your hypothesis. An experiment has an independent and dependent variable.

5) Data/Analysis - Record observations and analyze the meaning of the data. Often, you'll prepare a table or graph of the data. Once you have the data, you may need to perform a mathematical analysis to support or refute your hypothesis.

6) Conclusion- Conclude whether to accept or reject your hypothesis. There is no right or wrong outcome to an experiment. The results may be compiled into a lab report or formally submitted as a paper.


In an experiment there are Three Variables:

1-Controlled Variables: You can have as many controlled variables as you like. These are parts of the experiment that you try to keep constant throughout an experiment so that they won't interfere with your test. Writing down controlled variables is a good idea because it helps make your experiment reproducible, which is important in science! If you have trouble duplicating results from one experiment to another, there may be a controlled variable that you missed.

2-Independent Variable: This is the variable you control.

3-Dependent Variable: This is the variable you measure. It is called the dependent variable because it depends on the independent variable.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Psychology study on Fear Appeal

"Sixty years of fear appeal research: Current state of the evidence" This journal study gives an in-depth study of fear appeal theory including how it works in marketing and health settings, theories that contradict, and how to assess it effectively.  Abstract:  "Following a brief overview of the use of fear arousal in health education practice and the structure of effective fear appeals according to two main theoretical frameworks—protection motivation theory and the extended parallel process model—the findings of six meta-analytic studies in the effectiveness of fear appeals are summarized." "Threatening health messages are popular in health education design. For example, the introduction of health warnings on cigarette packages in 2002 was accompanied by wide-scale media attention on television, radio and in newspapers throughout Europe. Soon after the introduction of these messages, national polls were presented that suggested that people smoked less becaus...
Post a Comment
Read more

Assignment B Claim

For Assignment B, I've decided on the hypothesis that cable news networks use fear-inducing stories to gain more media attraction, but at the cost of their viewer's mental health; especially in women above the age of 30. I worked this into the claim below: Claim :  "Women above the age of 30 have increased mental stress when watching cable news due to its fear-inducing segments. " Media Dependency theory is used by media outlets as a tool to attract and keep high viewership. A key element of Media Dependency theory surrounds the idea that feeling like you are in a state of crisis leads a person to be more reliant on mass media for information.  Prototype :  I am still ideating the prototype I will use however I do know that I will be measuring Fear in this experiment, which I would need to somehow obtain from viewers of cable news.  In addition, I would need to figure out which cable news channels to choose from. I am considering just looking up who has the highest v...
Post a Comment
Read more

Fear Appeal In marketing

For the second section of my essay, I will be talking about how Fear Appeal is used in Marketing. As such, I compiled all of my findings together from various sources to help isolate the best way of explaining, and to communicate to the readers as efficiently as possible.  Fear Appeal In Marketing 1- Fear appeals have been employed in advertising of products and services. It dominated areas such as life insurance, road accident campaigns, promoting political causes, drug-prevention commercials, and in the development of social awareness of serious concerns (Latour & Zahra, 1988), such as the COVID-19 and other public health-related issues. (Addo et al., 2020) -When Should I Use the Fear Appeal? 2- "particularly if there are consequences for not purchasing a product. For example, if you sell fire extinguishers and your advertising strategy is to show how you may save your family members’ lives if you have an extinguisher during a fire, you are appealing to a fear in consumers t...
Post a Comment
Read more