A researcher maintains that a person's self esteem level is largely inherited from his or her parents. From this she derives the prediction that children with low self esteem probably come from homes where one or both parents have low self esteem. In this case, the prediction is the

A. theory.
B. hypothesis.
C. independent variable.
D. dependent variable.


B

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