Week 3: Scientific Community and Environmental Ethics

The major roles of the scientific community in the process of science include:

• Peer review, collaboration, and sharing of results

• Conducting only individual experiments

• Ignoring previous research

• Focusing solely on commercial applications

The study of environmental ethics is concerned with:

• the moral relationship between humans and the environment

• the physical properties of the environment

• the economic value of natural resources

• the technological advancements in environmental science

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What is Peer Review?

• A casual conversation with friends about research

• A more formal way for the researcher to get comments and criticism from the scientific community

• Publishing a paper without feedback

• Ignoring feedback from others

Good science is based on ______ rather than a one-time occurrence.

• replication

• intuition

• luck

• imagination

What does Self-Correction mean in science?

• A) Science never changes

• B) Science may go through revolutions in which one strongly held scientific view is abandoned for another

• C) Science always agrees with the first idea

• D) Science ignores new evidence

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Scientific Theory Building involves:

• Narrow explanations for specific events

• Broad explanations for phenomena that apply to a wide range of situations and observations

• Guessing without evidence

• Ignoring observations

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Refer to the diagram shown. Which of the following is NOT a part of the community analysis and feedback process?

• Feedback and peer review

• Replication

• Ignoring new questions/ideas

• Theory building

Fill in the blank: ______ is the branch of philosophy that involves the study of behavior; moral principles or values held by a person or a society.

• Ethics

• Aesthetics

• Metaphysics

• Epistemology

Fill in the blank: ______ is the ensemble of knowledge, beliefs, values, and learned ways of life shared by a group of people.

• Culture

• Climate

• Economy

• Government

Fill in the blank: ______ is culture, together with personal experience, that influences each person’s perception of the world and his or her place within it.

• Worldview

• Tradition

• Language

• Religion