Your Friend Has Trouble Making Commitments in Relationships

question 110

Multiple Choice

Your friend has trouble making commitments in relationships. You believe that this is because her parents had a bitter divorce when she was young. Your belief that a child who lives through a bitter parental divorce will have trouble making commitments in relationships as an adult would be considered a(n) .

• A) hypothesis
• B) independent variable
• C) empirical conclusion
• D) applied theory

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Definitions:

Acclimation

The process of an organism adjusting to change in its environment, allowing it to survive and reproduce.

Habituation

A process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus that does not bring any inherent reward or harm.

Empiricist

A person or theory that emphasizes the role of sensory experience in the formation of ideas, arguing that knowledge comes primarily from experience.

Rene Descartes

A 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who is considered one of the founders of modern philosophy.