Theories: - ACCURATE ANSWERS Are a set of propositions which explain a social phenomena
Inform research
Examples of the inductive process - ACCURATE ANSWERS Observations of 3 families with troubled teens leads to empirical generalization about all families with teens
Research on a group of...
Theories: - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Are a set of propositions which
explain a social phenomena
Inform research
Examples of the inductive process - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Observations of 3 families with troubled teens leads to empirical
generalization about all families with teens
Research on a group of individuals leading to a new theory
Your hypothesis (eating Twinkies twice a day will make people gain
weight) was supported in your research study. Based on this finding, you
suggest that it's not just Twinkies that make you fat; it's probably all
Hostess snack cakes that make you fat.
Are hypotheses constructed using inductive or deductive thinking in the
Wallace Wheel? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Hypothesis is on the
deductive side of the wheel
Give an example of how theory could inform research: - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Theories are weeded out through history. The good ones
that help society stay while the others are forgotten. These good theories
, are ones that researches go back to when they have new questions or
problems they want to solve. By using knowledge (or theories) that have
already been established as a base will give researchers a place to jump
from instead of starting from ground zero.
There are 3 major parts of theories: - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Assumptions: non-tested, foundations of a theory (beliefs that are taken
for granted or believed to be true.)
Concepts: the building blocks of a theory
Propositions: how the concepts of a theory affect one another (The
relationships between the concepts, the "glue" holding the theory
together.)
Positivism: - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Truth is truth and will always
be. For example, someone may really dislike gravity and try to defy it by
jumping off a roof, but no matter how hard they try that truth (gravity)
cannot be overcome or changed.
What is NOT an assumption of the Family Developmental Theory -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Successful families have several common
character traits.
Assumption of the Family Developmental Theory - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Families undergo stages of development.
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