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olgavictoria

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Suppose that your professor tells you that you must locate a journal article about cognitive psychology that presents empirical evidence. You should look for an article that
 
  a. studies humans, rather than other animals.
  b. emphasizes evidence collected in experiments.
  c. provides a theoretical explanation for previous research.
  d. uses at least two different statistical analyses.

Question 2

Imagine that you are attending a lecture by a guest speaker who describes a theory and then says, Let's now look at the empirical evidence. Which of the following would most likely be the speaker's next sentence?
 
  a. Other psychologists have objected to my approach on the following theoretical grounds.
  b. We conducted an experiment to test this hypothesis.
  c. The theorists who belonged to the empirical school rejected the behaviorist tradition, for the following reasons.
  d. By combining both the cognitive approach and the psychodynamic approach, we can devise a new theoretical approach to the problem.



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Answer to Question 1

Ans: b

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b



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