Marjorie Abad Tabon Bscrim2-H

Activity no. 2
1. Write briefly the importance of theory in not more than five sentences.

The importance of theory allows us to explain what we see and to figure out what we
observe that can lead us to guess about something. It’s our own opinion to discuss
what’s the cause of it and how it works when we encounter such crimes.

2. On a scale of 1-10, ten (10) being the highest and one (1) being the lowest,
rate how important for you is theory. Support your answer.

(8). Theory is important to me especially if it’s mine. I trust my mind when it comes to
conclusion or assumptions. I used to practice my observation skills when I’m in high
school until now. But I rate my scale to eighth(8) because sometimes my own theory
failed me.

3. List down the 3 stages of theory development and briefly explain each of
those using your own words.

Speculative – theory that tells us the obvious explanation. Like an obvious crime when a
man pulled the trigger to the other man with your existence.
Descriptive – a theory that needs data to know what happened. Just like a detective
whose collecting a data to all persons involved such a names, address, relationship and
etc. to figure out what really happened.
Constructive – develops rigid and intelligible information due to the evolved knowledge.
The old theory will be replace or added the information to make the theory strong.

4. What approach in theory development do you think is the easiest and what is
not? Is it the inductive, deductive or abductive? Support your answer.

The easiest approach in theory development is the inductive. Inductive is like a

research who needs data to gather information. Actually this is the easiest
because I had an experience using the inductive theory in high school. While the
hardest approach is the abductive. It gathers reasoning involved in both the
generation and evaluation of explanatory hypotheses and theories. Actually I
don’t really understand the abductive theory development.