Sally proposes the idea that one's sexual history prior to marriage predicts whether one ends up getting divorced. This best represents which step of the scientific method?
a) testing the hypothesis
b) observing events
c) forming a hypothesis
d) formulating a theory
ANS: C, Forming a hypothesis involves making an educated guess as to the answer to a research question.
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a) motivated b) emotional c) frustrated d) preconscious
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Approximately how many human languages are there?
600 6000 60,000 600,000
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