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AP Psychology 1.2 Research Methods. The results of testing hypotheses can be used as evidence to create which of the following?
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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by ideas we had a
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great one for a shmoop du jour joke but we forgot it so here's a picture of a [Potato on the grass]
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potato instead...Okay, here we go researchers test different hypotheses to
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explain observable phenomena in the world these results can be used as
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evidence for creating which one of the following and here are your potential answers...
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we're going to go out on a limb here and hypothesize that one of these [Man walking with his hands]
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answers is correct so let's test each one out...
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Let's start with A dilemma why would we want
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to create a problem with two distinct possibilities we need to avoid through [Man waiting to purchase an ice cream]
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the obvious choice that's clearly not what we're going for so we can scratch
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this one off the list and why would we aim to create a variable after all a
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variable is simply a characteristic or attribute of an object in gathering data
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a variable is seen as something that can change potentially producing different [Girl picking data]
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results when it does in the context of our question, this doesn't make a whole lot of
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sense so we can nix it... How about an experiment well if you're a researcher
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with a hypothesis chances are you'll be doing some experiment however if we take [Man and woman working in a lab]
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a quick look back in the passage we can see that experimenting or testing is
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included in the question we're looking for what comes after these experiments
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last to go is idea because it just doesn't fit with our timeline an idea is just a
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spark something that begins a very long process of hypothesizing, researching,
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experimenting and eventually creating a C; theory, a theory is an explanation of
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something that can be disproved by testing different hypotheses it's sort
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of somewhere in between a law and a hypothesis well when you look at that we [Timeline of law, theory and hypothesis]
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hypothesized that one of the answers would be right and now we can theorize
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that the correct answer was in fact theory now let's return to our
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hard-hitting academic programming [Potato on the grassy floor]
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