Your best friend passes you in the school hallway and glares at you without speaking. You think, "Now, why did she do that?" One possible explanation could be that she saw you flirting with her boyfriend
Within the framework of the scientific method, this possible explanation for your friend's behavior will remain tentative until it is tested by your asking your friend why she did not speak.
Thus, this tentative, possible explanation would be considered
a. theory.
b. operational definition.
c. hypothesis.
d. relative certainty.
ANSWER: c
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The trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision are not in conflict because each corresponds to
a. a different portion of the spectrum. b. the opposite half of perceivable colors. c. one type of color blindness. d. a different stage of visual processing. e. a different area of the eye.
When people classify a stimulus based on how similar it appears to be to the typical case, they are using the ________ heuristic
a. availability b. exemplar c. correspondence d. representativeness