Psychology 2220A/B Chapter 9: Chapter 9

in how we think, feel, and act in attempting to predict and 25. Psychologists recognize explain general human tendencies. a. individual differences b. functionalism c. skepticism d. theories

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.