According to the text, what are scientists interested in when they say that they are

interested in “explanation”?



a. knowing the precise moment when something will occur
b. knowing why something occurs the way it does
c. knowing whether or not some phenomenon is falsifiable
d. knowing whether or not some phenomenon can be carefully controlled
e. knowing whether or not two variables are correlated with each other


b.

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a. John Dewey b. Alan Monroe c. Abraham Maslow d. Bruce Tuckman

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The unified story of human kind that long dominated how people thought of the past, present, and future is known as ________.

A. the grand narrative B. Homo narrans C. oral history D. religious history

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Coordinated management of meaning (CMM) has been criticized because:

A) it has a reputation of being a confusing mix of ideas that are hard to pin down because they're expressed in convoluted language. B) Pearce and Cronen do not account for elements of human communication that are beyond coordination and coherence. C) Pearce and Cronen have a tendency to overemphasize statistical methods. D) Pearce and Cronen have aligned themselves too closely with Shannon and Weaver's model.

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