CMN 3102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Likert Scale, Scientific Method, Clifford Nass

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3102
• Professor: Philippe Rousseau

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Paulos, 1988) inability to deal comfortably with the fundamental notions of numbers and chance. Physical science: the study of the objective aspects of nature (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc. ) Social science: a groups of fields that set out to study how humans live and interact (anthropology, communications, cultural studies, economics, history etc. ) Hippocrates of cos - first researcher to classify his patients by temperament; may have initiated personality theories that drive modern social science. Plato: wrote on both physical and social scientific topics and occasionally even combined both. Used geometric proofs (physical science tool) to demonstrate his perspective on the intrinsic state of knowledge (the scientific concept) Aristotle: studied planetary motion with the same rigour and scientific processes that he used to study poetry and rhetoric; ancient greeks, both physical nature and human social processes were avenues of research to be done scientifically. Sir isaac newton: published a three-volume set entitled mathematical principles of natural.