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azncindy619

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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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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
d

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
a



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