Please indicate whether each statement below is true or false. 1. Information is
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Question
Please indicate whether each statement below is true or false.
1. Information is not a primitive term.
2. False information is still information.
3. People only use formal sources of information.
4. People often prefer to go with authoritative sources, even though they’re inconvenient to access.
5. Information literacy encompasses the ability to recognize that one has an information need.
6. The question a person poses is always a good representation of their actual information need.
7. Both cognitions and emotions are central to people’s information behavior.
8. Getting information is now far less problematic -- the problem today is how to allocate our limited attention across all of the information available to us.
9. When people are using an information system, their query represents their visceral information need.
10. One large study found that 80% of the study participants (university students) associated their initial visits to their university library with feelings of anxiety.
11. The difference between a model and a theory is that a model aims to describe and predict, while a theory also aims to explain a set of phenomena.
12. If a researcher wants to know whether experiencing information poverty is connected with information seeking behavior involving secrecy and deception, he/she should use a deductive approach.
13. Attributes are concepts of interest (such as gender) and variables are particular characteristics related to the concept of interest (such as male or female).
14. Qualitative methods most frequently yield findings that are highly replicable.
15. Epistemology refers to how we know things.
Explanation / Answer
2) false
3) false..
4) true..
5) true..
6) true..
7) true..
8) it is true..
9) true..
10) true.. It depends on the interest of the student at that it will be false..