During a lunch discussion on the TV show Lost, your friend Aldo exclaims, “I have a theory about the mysteries of the island.” Having just come from your Psychology class, you turn to Aldo and say, “you don’t really have a theory. You have a hunch. I know this because a theory is ____.”?
a. ?the constant recyclingand pruning of explanations of behavior and mental processes
b. ?an elaborate set of hypotheses
c. ?a law that has been established through experimentation
d. ?an integrated set of principles that can be used to explain and predict phenomena
ANSWER:
d
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