Question

Discuss your understanding of science. What is science? What does science show us – and what does it not show us? Identify or design your own research question and state what the independent and dependent variables would be (e.g., I am interested in whether chocolate consumption decreases anxiety. Chocolate would be the ____ variable and anxiety would be the _____ variable). Students are required to: 1) respond to the original discussion prompt provided and 2) respond to at least one other student’s thread post in their discussion group. Be sure to also write any comments or questions you might have about Chapter 2

Answer 1

Science is basically a systematic organisation of various facts and knowledge. It presents knowledge in a form which can be tested with an ease. It provides testable explanations to an event. It is a combination of practical and intellectual activity.

Observation and experimentation help a lot in the field of science. It also depicts the operations of general laws. Strong and abstract theories are integral part of science. Science remains based on facts and figures. It does not reveal the aspects like emotions.

It also denies the concept of spiritualism. It also doesn't bother about concept of social science. Those aspects in which observations and testing of hypothesis is not present, is known as area of non science. Suppose if we talk about role of childhood experiences in personality development then direct observations may be done but for a longer time.

If we talk about role of spiritual belief in personality development then we can not observe it and it will fall under the category of non science. Such aspects are studied under the broad category of psychology which is a combination of biology, statistics, art, probability and social science.

In science, we observe, we predict, we provide hypothesis and test those hypothesis. If same results are obtained in each testing then hypothesis becomes theory and if theory remains unchallenged for a long time period then the theory becomes law.