RESAERCH

Research is a sign of intelligence

-Intelligence can be define as the adaption of an environment to suit needs, which is why
humans can be acknowledged as the most “intelligent” of species.
-Us, Humans observe, identify, plan and then effect change. Humans have social gain through
information as well as resource sharing.
-As apart from any other species, humans have complex language structures and the written
word to share information from one person to another. Literate societies with well structured,
permanent means of communicating information have immense evolutionary advantage.

Why do we Research?
-We research people and their behavior, opinions, attitudes, trends and persons, also politics,
animals, health and illness. It can be conducted either informally for our benefit, through asking
Questions, Watching, Counting or Reading and formally, for medical or academic purposes. As a
marketing strategy, to inform influence politics and policy. Research may be carried out in
our own lives, through the media. In our place of work, with our friends and family or through
reading past research.
What do Research tell us?
Research gives us information about:
-Thoughts and Opinions -Culture -Medical information
-Attitudes -Norms
-Habitats -Scientific facts

Research begins when we want to know something. It is also concerned with increasing our
understanding. Research provides us with the information needed for problem solving and
making a decisions.
INVENTION AND INNOVATION
-Innovation is the creation and implementation of new processes, products, services and
methods of delivery which result in significant. improvements in outcomes, efficiency,
effectiveness or quality.
-Invention means any process, use, article of manufacture or composition of matter conceived
or first actually or constructively reduced to practice in the course of the Research
Examples of Scientists/Inventors and their Invention
Jason Salk- An American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first
successful Polio Vaccines.
Louis Pasteur- He was a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist renowned for his
discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
Alexander Graham Bell- He was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing
the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
Rudolf Virchow- Was a German physician anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist,
writer, editor and politician. He is known as the “The Father of Modern Pathology” and as the
founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues the “Pope of Medicine”.

1. It is the process of gathering data or information to solve a particular or specific manner.

2. He defines research as “careful, critical, disciplined inquiry, varying techniques and
method according to the inquiry and conditions of the problem identified.
3. Describe Researcher.
4. Give 2 characteristics of a good scientist.
5. Who invented the Polio Vaccine?
6. Who invented the Telephone?
7. What do you call a person who invented a particular process or device or who invents
things as an occupation.
8. What do you call the action or process of innovating?