If You Were Using the Scientific Method to Conduct Research

question 119

Multiple Choice

If you were using the scientific method to conduct research in abnormal psychology, you would be seeking:

• A) an idiographic understanding.
• B) to advance conventional wisdom.
• C) a nomothetic understanding.
• D) to change current graduate training.

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