Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. An idiographic causal explanation would be that the likelihood of committing violent crimes is higher for individuals who were abused as children.
2. An explanation identifying the concrete individual sequence of events, thoughts or actions that resulted in a particular outcome for a particular individual is a nomothetic causal explanation.
3. Empirical association is one of the conditions necessary to determine causality.
4. Being able to show that variation in the independent variable came before variation in the dependent variable is crucial in illustrating the criterion of time order.
5. Nonspuriousness is a relationship between two variables not due to a variation in a third variable.


1. False
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True

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