scientific method
Across
- 2. an idea that proposes a tentative explanation about a phenomenon or a narrow set of phenomena observed in the natural world.
- 6. the variable that is being measured or tested in an experiment.
- 7. a process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field.
- 8. the characteristic of a psychology experiment that is manipulated or changed by researchers, not by other variables in the experiment.
- 9. international decimal system of weights and measures, based on the metre for length and the kilogram for mass.
- 10. used to establish a cause-and-effect relationship by isolating the effect of an independent variable.
Down
- 1. something you don't understand but you can do an experiment to help you understand. Scientific problems are usually based on observation of scientific phenomena.
- 3. a group that receives a treatment in an experiment.
- 4. An assumption or prediction about something that you observe.
- 5. the active acquisition of information from a primary source.