Your Friend Sally Has Trouble Making Commitments in Relationships, and You

question 80

Multiple Choice

Your friend Sally has trouble making commitments in relationships, and you believe that this is because Sally's parents had a bitter divorce when she was young.What is exemplified by your belief that a child who lives through a bitter parental divorce will have trouble making commitments in relationships as an adult?

• A)an applied theory
• B)an independent variable
• C)a hypothesis
• D)an empirical inference

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