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A testable relationship that is less abstract than a theory.
Unanticipated findings give rise to new theories.
Scientists draw conclusions that go beyond the evidence.
Adherents believe that human action has distinctive qualities that make the social sciences and natural sciences fundamentally different.
Procedures that eliminate sources of variation that may obfuscate study results.
Scientists use this when they show how hypotheses follow logically from theory.
The building blocks of scientific theory that describe the phenomena of interest.
Technical term for the meaning of scientific objectivity.
A way knowing or understanding the world that relies on what we experience through our senses.
Scientific inquiry consists of the constant interplay between ______ and data.
______ impart a sense of understanding to scientific explanations.
The study or theory of what constitutes knowledge.