The children and adults participating in stacey's experiment are promised a reward just for participating, but no rewards are given. Stacey predicts that the children will be more likely than the adults to express anger when they do not get a reward. This prediction is a (n) :

The prediction that Stacey suggested is described as a hypothesis. Hypothesis is being defined as a supposition or proposed explanation by which the person who made such prediction is likely to be based on the basis of limited evidences that we could read in the scenario above.