A Psychologist Has a Theory About How Hunger Influences the Behaviour

question 114

Multiple Choice

A psychologist has a theory about how hunger influences the behaviour of rats and designs an experiment to test a specific if-then hypothesis such as, "If the rats are hungry, then they will run a maze more quickly." The hypothesis testing process in this example illustrates ____________ reasoning.

• A)confirmatory
• B)deductive
• C)convergent
• D)inductive

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