You Are at the Annual Conference of the Association for Psychological

Multiple Choice

You are at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science,listening to researcher's present papers on social development in later adulthood.In her presentation,Dr.Dryer notes,"Social disengagement theory predicts that older adults will attend social events less often than will middle-aged adults." The next presenter,Dr.Ebrahimi,reports that in the diaries participants kept as part of his study,older adults reported attending just as many parties,dinners,or other informal gatherings as did middle-aged adults,casting doubt on social disengagement theory.Dr.Dryer's statement reflects the ___ component of hypothetico-deductive reasoning,whereas Dr.Ebrahimi's illustrates ___.

A) inductive; the inductive component also
B) inductive; the deductive component
C) deductive; the inductive component
D) deductive; the deductive component also