24. • General Stages of Scientific Investigation
1. Asking a Question
2. Collecting Information/Making
observations
3. Inferring and forming a hypothesis
4. Designing a controlled experiment to test
the hypothesis
5. Collecting/Analyzing Data (qualitative vs.
quantitative)
6. Drawing Conclusions
25. Inference and imagination can lead to a hypothesis.
If..then format
Example:
If artificial king snakes are placed in an environment
without coral snakes, then they will be attacked more
frequently than the artificial brown snakes.
26. Variables – factors that change
Independent – you manipulate (what you
deliberately change)
Dependent – change in response to the
independent variable (variable that is measured)
Control Group – used for comparison
Nothing is changed
31. The graph below shows
the results of an
experiment in which mice
learned to run through a
maze.
1. State the hypothesis
that you think this
experiment tested.
2. Identify the variables
and control group.
3. What variables that
must have been kept
constant so as not to
affect the results
(validity).
4. Looking at the data
collected, does it
support the hypothesis?
Explain.