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Question 16

A psychologist claims that all dreams are driven by unconscious wishes. When presented with a patient who dreams of a neutral, everyday event with no apparent emotional meaning, the psychologist asserts that the wish is simply hidden deep within the patient's unconscious mind where it cannot be accessed. This explanation violates which key feature of science?

A

Replicability

B

Objectivity

C

Falsifiability

D

Theory construction

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How science works Questions

  1. A Level
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  3. /How science works

47 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology How science works. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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