Exam 3: Weighing the Words

The most common form of textual research in the communication discipline is:

________ is defined as the requirement that a scientific theory be stated in such a way that it can be tested and disproved if it is indeed wrong.

A method of participant observation designed to help a researcher experience a culture's complex web of meaning is called:

A good interpretive theory can be identified by the amount of support it generates within a community of scholars who are interested and knowledgeable about the same type of communication.

A good objective theory is as complex as possible because its complexity binds it closely to the real world.