Which of the Following Statements Regarding Theories and Hypotheses Is

question 509

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding theories and hypotheses is TRUE? Hypotheses

• A)use independent variables, whereas theories use dependent variables
• B)specify lawful relations between behaviours and their causes, whereas theories do not
• C)are derived from theories
• D)do not use operational theories but theories do

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Definitions:

Population Variance

A measure of the spread or dispersion within a dataset, representing the average of squared deviations from the mean.

Level of Significance

The likelihood of incorrectly dismissing the null hypothesis in a statistical analysis, frequently represented by the symbol alpha.

Population Variance

A measure quantifying the degree to which individual points in a whole population differ from the population mean.

Hypotheses

Proposed explanations made on the basis of limited evidence as starting points for further investigation.