According to your authors, radio and talk show personalities are often guilty of
A) assuming that correlation implies causation regarding human behavior.
B) offering nonfalsifiable theories to explain human behavior.
C) proposing single-cause explanations of human behavior.
D) supplying nonparsimonious explanations for the causes of various human behaviors.
Answer: C
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