Imagine That You Are Attending a Lecture by a Guest

question 54

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are attending a lecture by a guest speaker who describes a theory and then says, "Let's now look at the empirical evidence." Which of the following would most likely be the speaker's next sentence?

• A) "Other psychologists have objected to my approach on the following theoretical grounds."
• B) "We conducted an experiment to test this hypothesis."
• C) "The theorists who belonged to the empirical school rejected the behaviorist tradition, for the following reasons."
• D) "By combining both the cognitive approach and the psychodynamic approach, we can devise a new theoretical approach to the problem."

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