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lb_gilbert · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

A researcher maintains that a person's self esteem level is largely inherited from his or her parents. From this she derives the prediction that children with low self esteem probably come from homes where one or both parents have low self esteem. In this case, the prediction is the

A. theory.
B. hypothesis.
C. independent variable.
D. dependent variable.

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true about theories in personality psychology?

A. A good theory generates testable hypotheses.
B. A theory is a statement about the relationship between constructs or events.
C. The best theory is the one that explains a phenomenon with the fewest constructs.
D. all of the above