COM 207 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE EXAM WITH CORRECT RESPONSES.

COM 207 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
EXAM WITH CORRECT RESPONSES




What is a theory?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔A set of systematic, informed hunches about the way things
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work
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What is Communication?CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Relational process of creating and interpreting
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messages that elicit a responce
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ParadigmCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔how you are making sense of the world around you
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OntologyCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔the nature of reality; how things come to be; informs the paradigm
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EpistemologyCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔how do we know what we know?; the study of the origin, nature,
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method, and limits of knowledge
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AxiologyCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔ethics; the role of values in the way research is conducted; why are you
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doing research in the first place? What should be the outcomes of research?
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, Social Science/ObjectiveCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Behavioral science (experiments, surveys, observations);
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the assumption that truth is singular and is accessible through unbiased sensory observation; committed
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to uncovering cause-and-effect relationships
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InterpretiveCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Humanities (art.literature, life as it is lived); the linguistic work of
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assigning meaning of value to communicative texts; assumes that multiple meanings of truths are possbile
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CriticalCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Variable J




Objective (criteria)CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔Prediction of future events; explanation of data; relative
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simplicity; hypotheses that can be tested; practical utility; quantitative research
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Interpretive (criteria)CORRECT ANSWERS✔✔clarification of values; new understanding of people;
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aesthetic appeal; community of agreement; reform of society; qualitative research
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SensingCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔useful for appreciating the realities of a situation
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IntuitionCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔reveals the meanings, relationships, and possibilities that go beyond the
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information from your senses
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Socio-psychological traditionCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔communication as interpersonal interaction and
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influence
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Cybernetic TraditionCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔communication as a system of information processing
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Rhetorical traditionCORRECT ANSWERS✔✔communication as artful public address
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