Psychologists usually attempt to determine whether or not data supports a hypothesis through the use of ____
a. ?intuition
b. ?statistics
c. ?reason
d. ?polygraphs
ANSWER:
b
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a. prenatal b. protective c. teratogen d. genetic
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