If the results of an experiment are in the direction opposite to the direction specified in a directional alternative hypothesis, the experimenter must
a. give up and begin the whole experiment again, this time with a new hypothesis
b. pretend it didn't happen and insist that the alternative hypothesis was in the other direction
c. alter the numbers so the test comes out in the desired direction
d. evaluate a second, post hoc, two-tailed hypothesis
D
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a. Psychoanalytic b. Behavioral c. Humanistic d. Cognitive
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