Your friend sally has trouble making commitments in relationships, and you believe that this is because sally's parents had a bitter divorce when she was young. what is exemplified by your belief that a child who lives through a bitter parental divorce will have trouble making commitments in relationships as an adult?
a. an applied theory
b. an independent variable
c. a hypothesis
d. an empirical inference

c. a hypothesis

Explanation:

What is a hypothesis?

This is a a proposed statement which explains relationship between two variable with just limited evidence as an initial stage to further investigate from that. It is based on something that you can go on and test regarding what you expect to happen.

For example above the relationship of having divorced parents and making commitment in the future , the effect of the two is going to be tested.

Hypothesis is based on prediction and testing of that prediction afterwards.

The prediction is that child who lives through a bitter parental divorce will have trouble making commitments in relationships as an adult?

This can now be further investigated to discover if it is indeed true so that it can be accepted or rejected .

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