Hi Yakeer,
The scientific attitude is an approach to investigations that benefits from certain traits :
1.Curiosity or inquisitiveness
2.Objectivity
3.Open-mindedness
4.Perseve rance
5.Humility
6.Ability to accept failure
7.Skepticism
Bhaskara Rao (1989) stated that the most useful scientific attitudes are open mindedness, critical mindedness, respect for evidence, suspended judgment, intellectual honesty, willingness to change opinion, search for truth, curiosity, rational thinking, etc.
Scientific attitude is really a composite of a number of mental habits, or of tendencies to react consistently in certain ways to a novel or problematic situation. These habits or tendencies include accuracy, intellectual honesty, open-mindedness, suspended judgment, criticalness, and a habit of looking for true cause and effect relationships. It is a cognitive concept; scientific attitudes are normally associated with the mental processes of scientists. These habits are important in the everyday life and thinking, not only of the scientist, but of everyone.
Scientific attitudes possess attributes thought to be either true or false and do not express an evaluative quality. To lessen the semantic confusion, scientific attitudes may be better labeled as "scientific attributes". The attributes of scientific attitude are
rationality
curiosity
o pen mindedness
aversion to superstitions
objectivity and intellectual honesty
suspended judgment.
For more details, please refer to the links:
http://www.ksu.edu/b iology/pob/modern_attitudes.ht ml
http://www.education.com /reference/article/science-att itudes/
Answered by
Manoj Kumar
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4:18 PM on January 17, 2012
