Professor Jonas studies aggression. She sets up an experiment and makes her best guess as to how the results will come out. This best illustrates psychology's central goal of
A)explanation
B)prediction
C)description
D)criticism

Question

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Prediction is the central goal illustrated here, as Professor Jonas is making a hypothesis or a best guess about the outcome of her experiment, which involves forecasting how certain variables will behave or how certain phenomena will occur.

Professor Jonas Studies Aggression