Suppose That a 4-Year-Old and a 10-Year-Old Are Working Together

question 40

Multiple Choice

Suppose that a 4-year-old and a 10-year-old are working together to make a surprise birthday card for their father. Later, they tell their father which parts each of them constructed. Based on the material in Chapter 13, you would expect to find that

• A) the two children have similar accuracy, because working memory does not vary much with age.
• B) the two children have similar accuracy, because source monitoring does not vary much with age.
• C) the older child is more accurate, because the 4-year-old child will demonstrate almost complete childhood amnesia.
• D) the older child is more accurate, because source monitoring is more accurate for older children.

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Definitions:

Statistical Hypotheses

Formal statements made about the expected relationship between variables within the context of statistical analysis.

Frequency Distributions

A summary table or graph that shows how frequently different values occur in a dataset, often organized in ascending order.

Parameters

Numerical values that summarize data for the entire population.