During a lunch discussion on the TV show Lost, your friend Aldo exclaims, I have a theory about the mysteries of the island. Having just come from your Psychology class, you turn to Aldo and say, you dont really have a theory. You have a hunch. I know this because a theory is ____.
a. the constant recyclingand pruning of explanations of behavior and mental processes
b. an elaborate set of hypotheses
c. a law that has been established through experimentation
d. an integrated set of principles that can be used to explain and predict phenomena
Question 2
Megan believes she has found a medication that will greatly reduce the symptoms of depression, so she decides to conduct an experiment to test her ____. She randomly assigns depressed people to one of two groups. One group of participants takes the medication, while the other group gets only sugar pills. The latter group is receiving a ____.
a. hypothesis; placebo
b. theory; random variable
c. bias; treatment
d. intervening variable; placebo
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