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Evidence gained through sense experience or experiments is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Knowledge justified by experience is described by which term?Read the answer and worked solution →A priori knowledge stands for what is...Read the answer and worked solution →Strict empiricism holds that all knowledge is based on what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which view says some knowledge is independent of experience?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair are the two sources of empirical evidence?Read the answer and worked solution →Which source of evidence involves actively manipulating a phenomenon?Read the answer and worked solution →A learner logs the moon's phases nightly. This is mainly what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is experimentation rather than mere observation?Read the answer and worked solution →A friend's story that a remedy worked is best called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Scientific evidence is obtained by following what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which bias gives more weight to information obtained earlier?Read the answer and worked solution →Evidence is called empirical when it is accessible to what?Read the answer and worked solution →In philosophy of science, evidence does what to hypotheses?Read the answer and worked solution →What is required before a hypothesis gains scientific acceptance?Read the answer and worked solution →Which step helps validate a hypothesis in the scientific method?Read the answer and worked solution →Traditional teaching usually relies on the teacher doing what?Read the answer and worked solution →Inquiry learning arose from which 1960s movement?Read the answer and worked solution →Inquiry-based learning has roots in which family of learning theories?Read the answer and worked solution →Dewey held that science should be taught as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Banchi and Bell (2008) describe inquiry in how many levels?Read the answer and worked solution →Which level has teacher-led activities whose results are already known?Read the answer and worked solution →The teacher supplies the question and procedure, students explain results. Level?Read the answer and worked solution →Only the research question is given; students design the procedure. Level?Read the answer and worked solution →Which level has students form their own research question and procedure?Read the answer and worked solution →Banchi and Bell advise teachers to start inquiry teaching at which level?Read the answer and worked solution →In inquiry learning, learners obtain what to answer their own questions?Read the answer and worked solution →In open learning, how should students treat unexpected results?Read the answer and worked solution →Wagenschein stressed that students should do what with what they learn?Read the answer and worked solution →Brown's inquisitive learning is driven mainly by what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Evidence gained through sense experience or experiments is called what?

  1. Innate evidence
  2. Empirical evidence
  3. Deductive proof
  4. Rational intuition
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Correct answer: B. Empirical evidence

Empirical evidence is evidence obtained through sense experience or experimental procedure.

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Knowledge justified by experience is described by which term?

  1. Intuitive knowledge
  2. Innate knowledge
  3. A posteriori knowledge
  4. A priori knowledge
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Correct answer: C. A posteriori knowledge

Knowledge is a posteriori when it rests on empirical evidence, meaning it depends on experience.

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A priori knowledge stands for what is...

  1. Independent of experience
  2. Gained after observation
  3. Based on lab results
  4. Learned from teachers
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Correct answer: A. Independent of experience

A priori refers to what is independent of experience, in contrast to a posteriori knowledge.

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