A researcher expects to find an empirical relationship between the amount of time young children spend in daycare and their emotional security. Her statement that "young children who spend their early years in daycare are more emotionally secure than those that stay at home with a parent" is her:

a. hypothesis.
b. assumption.
c. theory.
d. operational definition.


a

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