Dr. Masood is conducting an experiment in which she is testing the effect of video game playing on the ability to think creatively. One group of children plays video games for two hours a day in a week, another group of similar children plays video games for a total of two hours in a week, and a third group of children do not play video games at all. All three groups of children then take a test measuring their creativity. The hypothesis that Dr. Masood is testing is best described as a ____ hypothesis.
A) predictive
B) control
C) causal
D) behavioral

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The hypothesis that Dr. Masood is testing is exploring the relationship between video game playing and creativity, with the aim of determining whether playing video games causes a change in creative thinking ability. It is thus a causal hypothesis, as it is seeking to establish whether one variable (video game playing) causes changes in another variable (creative thinking ability). The other answer options, such as predictive or control, do not fully capture the nature of the hypothesis being tested in this experiment.

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