What is research?

How do we know something?

Research as a natural process

Scientific research and common sense

Seek answers to questions about phenomena that occur in our daily lives.

E.g. A child wants a ball and make sound in order to get it and his fathers guess what the baby wants. The parents observed, they questioned, and experimented before they can know what the baby wanted.

Scientific research is conducted systematically

Science builds theories by systematically testing an interrelated body of hypotheses

Scientific research seeks to describe, identify and control relationships among phenomena in order to study them

Four types of knowledgeType 1..- Knowledge as belief.Type 2.- Knowledge as authority.Type 3.- A priori knowledgeType 4.- Empirical knowledge

Four types of knowledgeType 1..- Knowledge as belief.Type 2.- Knowledge as authority.Type 3.- A priori knowledgeType 4.- Empirical knowledge

Basic, applied, and practical research

Type 1.- when we know something on the basis of belief, it may mean we want to believe something to be true but have never submitted it to an empirical test.Type 2.- This source may be another scientist who has achieved a reputation and whose opinions about phenomena in his field of research are accepted either as proven facts or as educated judgements from a respected researcher.Type 3.- This form of knowledge is usually founded on some previous systematic empirical work or observation.Type 4.- This happens through the process of observation and/or experimentation.