Tony Is Taking His First Psychology Course

Short Answer

Tony is taking his first psychology course.He has been reading his textbook,taking notes in class,and performed well on the multiple choice tests so far.Now,his psychology instructor has given the class the assignment to look up some research articles in the PsycINFO database and to summarize them.Tony complains about this assignment,"Why am I wasting my time doing this? Why doesn't Dr.Colby just give us the articles so we can get right to reading and learning them?" Tony appears to think that only one competency for college psychology classes exists,which is the _______ of psychology.