Dr.Birk suggests that because depression is associated with pessimistic thinking,depressed students would be more likely than nondepressed students to perceive themselves as academically incompetent.Dr.Birk's prediction regarding students' self-perceptions is an example of a(n)
A) illusory correlation.
B) placebo effect.
C) confounding variable.
D) hypothesis.

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Dr. Birk's prediction is an example of a hypothesis, which is a testable statement that predicts a relationship between variables.

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