Your friend has trouble making commitments in relationships. You believe that this is because her parents had a bitter divorce when she was young. Your belief that a child who lives through a bitter parental divorce will have trouble making commitments in relationships as an adult would be considered a(n) .
A) hypothesis
B) independent variable
C) empirical conclusion
D) applied theory

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This belief can be considered a hypothesis because it is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon or a speculative guess that can be tested through further observation and experimentation.

Your Friend Has Trouble Making Commitments in Relationships