The graph below shows the results of an experiment in which mice ...

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The graph below shows the results of an experiment in which mice learned to run through a maze. (a) State the hypothesis and prediction that you think this experiment tested.

Accepted Answer

Hi everyone here's the next question. A blank is a comprehensive set of ideas explaining a phenomenon in nature and our answer choices here are theory law data or prediction. Well, data and prediction are pretty easy to rule out here data being sort of those individual units of information whether qualitative or quantitative um that you're collecting when you are testing a hypothesis. So it's not a comprehensive set ideas explaining a phenomenon. So that's not our answer. And choice. Deep prediction is not correct, prediction would be um trying to guess what will happen in the future based on what happened in the past. It doesn't have it's not explaining a phenomenon with a whole set of ideas. So we're left with theory and law now that's a little tricky and a little nebulous. But in general a theory is something that explains a comprehensive set of ideas that explains a phenomenon and how it happens. Based on extensive experimentation. Data collection duplicated by different researchers so well substantiated. A law predicts what will happen in nature. And it's often demonstrated in the form of a mathematical equation. So as you can see, it's a little tricky to distinguish between these two things. But if we kind of focus an idea the law, we'd use to predict what will happen. And especially the fact that it's often formulated as a math equation, we will look to theory as are most likely answer a comprehensive set of it is explaining a phenomenon in nature as the theory explains what happens while the law more than predicts what will happen. So Choice A. Is are correct, correct answer here and will rule out Law and Choice B. See you in the next video.

The graph below shows the results of an experiment in which mice learned to run through a maze. (a) State the hypothesis and prediction that you think this experiment tested.

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