CHAPTER 6: FORMULATING THE HYPOTHESIS

• hypothesis - explanation of a relationship between two or more variables
• nonexperimental hypothesis - predicts how variables might be correalted
• synthetic statements - hypothesis must be capable of being true or false
• experimental hypothesis - tentative explanation of an event or a behavior
• parsimony - means that we prefer a simple hypothesis
• induction - specific cases to general principle
• deduction - reasoning from general principles to specific predictions
• intuition - knowing without reason
• meta-analysis - statistical analysis of many similar studies