A Basic Error That Nearly All Beginning Psychology Students Make

question 139

Multiple Choice

A basic error that nearly all beginning psychology students make is to assume that

• A)simple theories are preferred to complex ones.
• B)research questions or theories must be falsifiable.
• C)good theories make safe,not risky,predictions.
• D)correlation is causation.

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