There are multiple goals in science,and researchers move between goals at various points in their research.If a researcher has a lot of data about the measurement of fear reactions and uses those data to generate a theory about fear,how have the researcher's goals changed

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The researcher's initial goal was likely to describe and measure fear reactions (description), but by using the data to generate a theory about fear, the goal has shifted to understanding the phenomenon of fear.

There Are Multiple Goals in Science,and Researchers Move Between Goals