Examples of hypothesis in the following topics:
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- Future testing may disprove the hypothesis.
- To determine whether a hypothesis is supported or not supported, psychological researchers must conduct hypothesis testing using statistics.
- Hypothesis testing is a type of statistics that determines the probability of a hypothesis being true or false.
- If the hypothesis is false, create a new hypothesis or try again
- After making a hypothesis, the researcher will then design an experiment to test his or her hypothesis and evaluate the data gathered.
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- In the early stages of research it might be difficult to form a hypothesis, especially when there is not any existing literature in the area.
- In these situations designing an experiment would be premature, as the question of interest is not yet clearly defined as a hypothesis.
- Often a researcher will begin with a non-experimental approach, such as a descriptive study, to gather more information about the topic before designing an experiment or correlational study to address a specific hypothesis.
- Experimental research goes a step further beyond descriptive and correlational research and randomly assigns people to different conditions, using hypothesis testing to make inferences about how these conditions affect behavior.
- Correlational and experimental research both typically use hypothesis testing, whereas descriptive research does not.
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- The facial feedback hypothesis asserts that facial expressions are capable of influencing our emotions.
- The facial feedback hypothesis asserts facial expressions are not only the results of our emotions but are also capable of influencing our emotions.
- In an attempt to objectively assess the facial feedback hypothesis, Strack, Martin, and Stepper (1988) devised an experiment that would hide their true goals from the participants.
- This outcome supported the facial feedback hypothesis.
- According to the facial feedback hypothesis, facial expressions aren't simply caused by emotions—they can influence our emotions as well.
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- The two main models of social support are the buffering hypothesis and the direct-effects hypothesis, both of which describe a positive relationship between social support and stress management.
- The two dominant models of social support are the direct-effects hypothesis and the buffering hypothesis.
- According to the direct-effects hypothesis, social support provides better health and wellness benefits all the time, regardless of whether the person being supported is currently experiencing stress
- According to the buffering hypothesis, in contrast, social support provides such benefits most strongly when someone is supported while experiencing stress.
- Proponents of this hypothesis theorize that support serves as a protective layer, creating psychological distance between a person and stressful events.
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- The purpose of an experiment is to investigate the relationship between two variables to test a hypothesis.
- You find support for your hypothesis that red stimuli are processed more quickly than green stimuli.
- The conclusion will either support the hypothesis or refute it.
- The scientist will then either reformulate the hypothesis or build upon the original hypothesis.
- The scientific method cannot prove a hypothesis, only support or refute it.
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- Two key concepts in the scientific approach are theory and hypothesis.
- A hypothesis is a testable prediction that is arrived at logically from a theory.
- The goal behind the scientific method is to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
- A hypothesis is a prediction about the relationship between two specific variables.
- The data collected during a research study would aim to prove or disprove this hypothesis.
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- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the grammatical structure of a person's language influences the way he or she perceives the world.
- The hypothesis has been largely abandoned by linguists as it has found at best very limited experimental support, and it does not hold much merit in psychology.
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- The empathy-altruism hypothesis states that psychological
altruism does exist and is evoked by the empathic desire to
help someone who is suffering.
- Distinguish among the social-exchange theory, the reciprocity norm, and the empathy-altruism hypothesis of altruism
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- In language acquisition, there is a hypothesis that a "critical period," or a time when it is optimal to learn a language, exists in children.
- Part of this hypothesis is that if a child is not exposed to a language in the early years of life, he or she will never have full intuitive command of a first language.
- One of the canonical case studies that supporters of the critical-period hypothesis turn to is Genie the "feral child," a young girl born in 1957 who, due to horrible abuse and neglect, never learned a language.
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- If a researcher has a particular hypothesis in mind, he or she may look for patterns in the data that support that hypothesis, while ignoring other important patterns that oppose it.
- Researchers make this mistake when they obtain mostly null results (results that do not support their hypothesis), and compensate by exaggerating or magnifying any pattern they do find.