PSYB32H3 Lecture : lec notes

9) You read that their a relationship between eating meat and the possibility if getting cancer, you decide to do an experiment and find that their exists no relationship. What can be a reason for your not finding any relationship between these two variables?

16. A hypothesis is an) a unprovable assumption about the unobservable processes that underlie psychological functioning. b. set of principles that organizes observations and explains newly discovered facts, c. testable prediction that gives direction to research. d. observable relationship between specific independent and dependent variables.