A psychologist has a theory about how hunger influences the behaviour of rats and designs an experiment to test a specific if-then hypothesis such as,"If the rats are hungry,then they will run a maze more quickly." The hypothesis testing process in this example best illustrates ____________ reasoning.

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The psychologist starts with a specific hypothesis ("If the rats are hungry, then they will run a maze more quickly") and then designs an experiment to test that hypothesis. This is an example of deductive reasoning, where a specific hypothesis is tested through observation and experimentation.

A Psychologist Has a Theory About How Hunger Influences the Behaviour