RESEARCH STUDY 1.1 Deci and Ryan (1985, 2001) Have Proposed That There Are

RESEARCH STUDY 1.1
Deci and Ryan (1985, 2001) have proposed that there are three fundamental needs that are required for human growth and fulfillment: relatedness, autonomy, and competence. Susan predicts that students who have these needs met in their psychology class feel happier and more satisfied with the class. She collects data and finds that students who feel more related and competent do feel happier but that feeling more autonomous does not seem to matter. Susan thinks that maybe autonomy is only necessary when people are in situations in which they are not being evaluated.
-Refer to Research Study 1.1 above to answer the following question. After Susan collects and analyzes her data,which of the following is the next logical step?

A) Writing a paper challenging Self-Determination Theory, because only some of her data supported it
B) Ignoring the data that did not fit the theory
C) Finding a new collaborator
D) Recalculating her data to fit the theory
E) Altering or amending the theory to fit her data