Passive Observation And Active Experimentation

It is important that when Observing and recording you of selecting the appropriate method to suit desired aim of the observation it. We do observations to help look at the different areas of development i.e. physical, intellectual, emotional, and social.

This author ascribes to the empiricism paradigm. This paradigm is similar to empirical knowing in that it is based on the premise that what is known can be verified through the senses, or

Craig’s worries about his son’s actions being more feminine as a result of playing with feminine toys is not uncommon. Many parents may become worried if they start seeing their child being more interested in playing with toys designed for the opposite gender. A hypothesis can be drawn up by stating that if boys with typically female toys, then there would be an increase of femininity traits of passiveness.

Humans are naturally curious creatures. One’s inquisitive mindset might lead to all sorts of discoveries or answers to cosmic questions. However, the world and the life one lives inside the world are not always as they seem to be at first glance. What one does know about the world is based solely on their perception of reality and one person’s perspective will differ from the next. How does one know when they look at the blue sky or the green grass that the other people around them are witnessing the same scene they are experiencing? Should the stranger on the street fear another stranger simply because they are unable to know for absolute certainty that other is not a deranged, cannibalistic murderer?

​Each individual of humankind was born with a natural curiousness about oneself and one’s surroundings. Seeking the truth and explanation of those things is human instinct. In the past, the ancestors believed that any natural phenomena were created by supernatural powers of God. After hundreds or thousands of years, these phenomena have been logically explained by scientific methods and theories. However, in 20th century, when these two different explanations interpreted with each other, it became a controversial issue questioning which one was right and which one was wrong. The Scopes Monkey

In order to discover how the cosmos works, humanist believe that “observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against evidence has the best track record” (Fry, “That’s Humanism!”).

Chapters three, four, five and six of World Views by Ninian Smart speaks to the duality of religion in the dimensions of experimental, mystic, doctrinal and ethical. In the realm of experimental she uses two examples. One being the Roman Catholic Church and the other being the Buddhist religion. Throughout this essay I will use these two examples while addressing the experimental, mystic, doctrinal and ethical dimensions.

Reasoning is a cognitive process that includes acting on information and data to reach conclusions. It requires the extraction of a certain conclusion from examinations, assumptions or facts. In formal reasoning problems the information necessary for drawing an inference is distinctly stated, and there is a single correct answer that can be found by applying an algorithm. In informal reasoning problems, there is no single correct solution. Instead there are either predictions, or heuristics- “cognitive rules of thumb, hard-wired mental shortcuts that everyone uses every day in routine decision making and judgment” . One of these heuristics is called anchoring and adjustment, and claims that humans tend to make a decision based on the first piece of information they are exposed to, suggesting that this is why the final decision is typically bias towards the anchor (this first piece of information).

Reason is a fundamental, substantial element of explanation and enlightenment; it is best regarded as the capacity of human's beings to understand the many occurrences that life brings. Nonetheless, it is a key section in the scientific method. Researchers and experts have used this objective reasoning to verify any hypothesis. In the 20th century, the objective rationality according to the biographers became spoiled into a more subjective form formerly known as the instrumental reason or rationality. The Insight, which was thought to encourage and create an advanced civilized world dialectically, contained it's opposite the destruction of civilization.

“The practitioner allows himself to experience surprise, puzzlement, or confusion in a situation which he finds uncertain or unique. He reflects on the phenomenon before him, and on the prior understandings which have been implicit in his behaviour. He carries out an experiment which serves to generate both a new understanding of the phenomenon and a

The world is a complicated place that works in mysterious ways, but people, with their inquisitive minds, refuse to let even the most confounding puzzles go unsolved. Science provides explanations for aspect of the world with no tangible evidence. But more often than not, science gets it wrong. One way to test the validity of a scientific theory is the use of the Hypothetico-Deductive Method. The results of such a method provide evidence of confirmation or disconfirmation, though these results cannot always be trusted. The world is complicated, thus it requires an equally complicated instrument of discovery. With such complexity, philosophical problems in reasoning are bound to arise, but there is always a solution to such issues.

A person can acquire knowledge in many ways, but reason is one of the ways in which a person will acquire knowledge based on their experience. Although hardly noticed, to provide explanations and solve problems in an incident or event, logical thinking and rationality are used. Reason plays an important part in a persons live as a way of knowing since it controls our lives daily due to it’s ability of appealing itself under different situations. In setting up an objective knowledge, reason is very helpful because of it’s stability and certainty. However, there are also weaknesses in using reason as a way of knowing, such as the existence of a mistaken belief or the evidence of the bias. While reason is providing a method of knowing it is also limited to be used in finding a truth.

The observation method is the most commonly used method especially in studies relating to behavioral sciences. Under the observation method, the information is sought by way of investigator’s own direct observation without asking from the respondent. The main advantage of this method is that subjective bias is eliminated, if observation is done accurately. Secondly, the information obtained under this method relates to what is currently happening; it is not complicated by either the past behavior or future intentions or attitudes. Thirdly, this method is independent of respondents’ willingness to respond and as such is relatively less demanding of active cooperation on the part of respondents as happens to be the case in the interview or the

From the mundane to abnormal reason and logic plays a major role in every function of our lives, in helping us clearly gain knowledge of the things that are occurring. Reason is the fundamental guideline of understanding. It is the method of identifying entities through one 's sensesit helps us transform perceptions into concepts, gaining knowledge through this process, integrating that knowledge into the rest of one 's knowledge, and evaluating and manipulating ideas and facts.

Today in society, many people are free to follow which ever philosophical view that they feel is right for them. Each philosophical view has a different set of beliefs, and many philosophers went through great lengths to prove that the philosophical view of their choice was the best one. In this paper I will be talking about two philosophical theories. The first one is called Empiricism, and it was made famous by a philosopher named David Hume. Empiricism states that our knowledge should come from sensory experience, impressions, and observation. The other philosophical view I will be taking about is called Rationalism. Many people who don’t agree with empiricism lean more towards Rationalism. Rationalism was made famous by a