Studies of the Vai People of Liberia,who Learn Their Native

question 31

Multiple Choice

Studies of the Vai people of Liberia,who learn their native script at home rather than in school,suggest that ______.

• A)literacy by itself had little or no effect on cognitive performance
• B)literate participants had higher abilities to provide verbal explanations
• C)literate participants were better able to justify their problem solutions
• D)literate participants performed better on logic problems

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Definitions:

Checking Account Balance

The amount of money currently available in someone's checking account.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the statistics of observed data, that is believed to contain the true value of an unknown parameter with a certain probability.

Credit Union

A member-owned financial cooperative that provides traditional banking services like savings and loan facilities to its members.

Random Sample

A subset of individuals chosen from a larger set, where each individual has an equal probability of being selected.