COM 390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Desirability Bias, Stamped Envelope, Birth Order
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Physical science: the study of the objective aspects of nature (bio, chem, physics, astro, etc. ) Social science: a group of fields that set out to study how humans live and interact (anthropology, communication, cultural studies, economics, education, etc. ) Theory: a proposed explanation for how a set of natural phenomena will occur, capable of making predictions about the phenomena for the future, and capable of being falsified through empirical observation. Explanation: a(cid:374) atte(cid:373)pt to satisf(cid:455) o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)u(cid:396)iosit(cid:455) a(cid:271)out a(cid:374) o(cid:271)se(cid:396)(cid:448)a(cid:271)le e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t. Predictions/hypotheses: hypothetical proposition: a statement that either confirms something or denies something, a(cid:374) a(cid:374)te(cid:272)ede(cid:374)t is a(cid:374) (cid:862)if(cid:863) state(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, a (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)e is a (cid:862)the(cid:374)(cid:863) state(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Argument - a set of propositions in which one follows logically as a conclusion from the others. If our syllogism starts with false premises, then the conclusion can never be true: major premise, minor premise, conclusion:
