Question

Dr. Sanchez shows members of a preliterate Andean culture and U.S. college students a series of photographs of either Andeans or North Americans displaying emotional expressions. She asks both groups to identify the emotion displayed in each photograph. Dr. Sanchez predicts that participants should identify emotions accurately both when they are displayed by members of their own cultural group, as well as when they are displayed by members of the other group. With respect to research methods in psychology, this prediction is termed a(n):

Answer 1

Answer:

Hypothesis

Explanation:

A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypothesis on previous observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available scientific theories. Even though the word "hypothesis" and "theory" are often used synonymously, a scientific hypothesis is not the same as scientific theory. A working hypothesis is provisionally accepted hypothesis proposed for further research, in a process beginning with an educated guess or thought.