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TEXT COMPARISON
KEY NAMES
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short video overview (3:01).
11th Edition
Annotated list of scholars and terms, from the Instructors Manual and margin notes in the text
List mode: Normal (click on theory name to show detail) | Show All details | Clear details
Chapter 3—Weighing the Words
- Rule of parsimony (Occam’s razor)
- Given two plausible explanations for the same event, we should accept the simpler version.
- Falsifiability
- The requirement that a scientific theory must be stated in a way that it can be tested and disproved if it is indeed wrong.
- Experiment
- A research method that manipulates a variable in a tightly controlled situation in order to find out if it has the predicted effect.
- Survey
- A research method that uses questionnaires and structured interviews to collect self-reported data that reflects what respondents think, feel, or intend to do.
- Self-referential imperative
- Include yourself as a constituent of your own construction.
- Ethical imperative
- Grant others that occur in your construction the same autonomy you practice constructing them.
- Critical theorists
- Scholars who use theory to reveal unjust communication practices that create or perpetuate an imbalance of power.
- Textual analysis
- A research method that describes and interprets the characteristics of any text.
- Ethnography
- A method of participant observation designed to help a researcher experience a culture’s complex web of meaning.
You can access the Key Names for a particular chapter in several ways:
- Switch to View by Theory, then select the desired theory/chapter from the drop-down list at the top of the page. Look in the list of available resources.
- To quickly find a theory by chapter number, use the Table of Contents and link from there. It will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
- You can also use the Theory List, which will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
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additional resources.
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KEY NAMES
New to Theory
Resources?
Find out more
in this short
video overview
(3:01).
11th Edition
Annotated list of scholars and terms, from the Instructors Manual and margin notes in the text
List mode: Normal (click on theory name to show detail) | Show All details | Clear details
Chapter 3—Weighing the Words
- Rule of parsimony (Occam’s razor)
- Given two plausible explanations for the same event, we should accept the simpler version.
- Falsifiability
- The requirement that a scientific theory must be stated in a way that it can be tested and disproved if it is indeed wrong.
- Experiment
- A research method that manipulates a variable in a tightly controlled situation in order to find out if it has the predicted effect.
- Survey
- A research method that uses questionnaires and structured interviews to collect self-reported data that reflects what respondents think, feel, or intend to do.
- Self-referential imperative
- Include yourself as a constituent of your own construction.
- Ethical imperative
- Grant others that occur in your construction the same autonomy you practice constructing them.
- Critical theorists
- Scholars who use theory to reveal unjust communication practices that create or perpetuate an imbalance of power.
- Textual analysis
- A research method that describes and interprets the characteristics of any text.
- Ethnography
- A method of participant observation designed to help a researcher experience a culture’s complex web of meaning.
You can access the Key Names for a particular chapter in several ways:
- Switch to View by Theory, then select the desired theory/chapter from the drop-down list at the top of the page. Look in the list of available resources.
- To quickly find a theory by chapter number, use the Table of Contents and link from there. It will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
- You can also use the Theory List, which will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
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