Aliens, Atlantis, and Archaeology questions and answers well illustrated.

Aliens, Atlantis, and Archaeology questions and answers well illustrated. What is epistemology? - correct answers.The study of knowledge (how we know what we know) The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions (i.e. the simplest) is usually the correct one - correct answers.Occam's Razor What is science? - correct answers.The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experiment What is pseudoscience? - correct answers.A claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not follow the scientific method Which are characteristics of pseudo-scientific claims? Ignore alternative explanations, Relies on anecdotal evidence, seeks to prove rather than test claims, or all answers are correct? - correct answers.All answers are correct What is archaeology? - correct answers.A method to study past human activity by studying things people made and used. According to Kida, which is NOT one of the six mistakes we make in our thinking? We oversimplify, we are born liars, we seek to confirm, or we prefer stories to statistics? - correct answers.We are born liars What is an hypothesis? - correct answers.A proposed explanation based on evidence A theory is an hypothesis that has withstood repeated testing. True or False? - correct answers.True Characteristics of scientific claims include a strong reliance on anecdotal evidence, preconceived notions of what to believe and a disregard for alternative explanations. True or False? - correct answers.False What is a hoax? - correct answers.A deliberate deception masquerading as the truth What is a motivation for a hoax; Financial gain, Make a social statement, To embarrass someone, or All choices are correct? - correct answers.All choices are correct According to Feder, what makes for a successful hoax: Don't be too successful, Give the people what they want, Learn from your mistakes, or All choices are correct? - correct answers.All choices are correct The cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction is referred to as? - correct answers.Docufiction A human body can turn into petrified stone if that person drinks fluid found inside a geode, as happened to Ernest Flucterspeigel in 1858. True or False? - correct answers.False "Alien Autopsy" and Animal Planets "Mermaid, Body Found" are examples of ? - correct answers.Entertainment masquerading as science In archaeology, CONTEXT (where an artifact is found and what it is found with) makes no impact on how an artifact is interpreted. What's most important is what the artifact looks like. True or False? - correct answers.False Characteristics of thinking like a scientist include: - correct answers.Make sure a claim can be tested and consider alternative explanations The reason that we can know the Cardiff giant and other petrified bodies are hoaxes is that only animals can petrify. True or False? - correct answers.False People were easily persuaded to believe in the validity of the Cardiff Giant because they wanted to believe in the idea that giants once roamed the earth. This is a good example of which of Kida's mistakes we make in our thinking? - correct answers.We seek to confirm What was the harm in the Piltdown hoax? - correct answers.It sent scientists in the wrong direction in the investigation of human evolution The Piltdown fossil was undetected for so long because: it confirmed the early human traits that scientists expected to find, the scientists involved believed in their friend Charles Dawson, Nationalistic pride that human evolution took place in England, not Africa or All choices are correct ? - correct answers.All choices are correct According to current evolutionary theory, what was the first human characteristic to develop? - correct alism The Piltdown Hoax? - correct the deliberate fabrication of a fossil involving an ancient human cranium and a modern ape jaw