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COMM 2030 TEST 1 BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM WITH 100% VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS ALREADY GRADED A+ LATEST
UPDATE GUATANTEED PASS!!!



What is research? - (answer)"systematic process" to seek answers to questions and understanding
phenomena



What are the 3 stages of communication inquiry? - (answer)1. Observing communication phenomena

2. Discovering theoretical explanations

3. Testing theoretical explanation



Observing communication phenomena means - (answer)specifying areas and narrow down key terms



Discovering theoretical explanations means - (answer)finding a theory



Testing theoretical explanation means - (answer)testing your theory



What are the three elements of theory? - (answer)1. Driving force or cause (popular magazine)

2. Boundary conditions (peer pressure)

3. Effects or outcomes (thinking you're fat when skinny)



Ways of knowing - (answer)Authority, personal experience, tenacity, intuition, scientific method



Knowing by Authority - (answer)It is true because teachers, professors, and experts say so. (most
common knowing)



Knowing by Personal Experience - (answer)Learning through the five senses, particularly seeing,
touching, and hearing. It is direct knowledge. Sometimes there may be no substitute for this unmediated
method of knowing.



Knowing by Tenacity - (answer)Tradition. Knowledge passed from generation to generation

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Knowing by Intuition - (answer)Based on a hunch or "gut" feeling



Knowing by the Scientific Method - (answer)Combination of observation(empiricism) & reasoning
(rationalism) by logic



Characteristics of scientific method - (answer)Public, objective, empirical, systematic, cumulative



The Public Nature of Science - (answer)To document, archive and share all data and methodology so it is
available for careful scrutiny and replication by other scientists.



The Objective Nature of Science - (answer)The scientific method attempts to minimize the influence of
the scientist's bias and personal beliefs. (i.e. using same measurement tools)



The Empirical Nature of Science - (answer)Social scientists gather data using specialized tools in the
social science to test hypotheses and theories.



The Systematic Nature of Science - (answer)Studies are carried out according to certain rules (i.e.
literature review). Researchers build their study and plan their designs in a purposeful manner so that
the data collected address the questions at hand.



The Cumulative Nature of Science - (answer)We can say that a research have validity, only when results
are replicated. Scientific knowledge is gathered over long periods of time, involving various methods and
means, by different people in the scientific community.



Deductive reasoning - (answer)Research conducted to test theory (Theory to Data)

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