The Cases of Genie and Victor of Aveyron Demonstrate That

question 7

Multiple Choice

The cases of Genie and Victor of Aveyron demonstrate that ______.

• A)environmental triggers are necessary for language acquisition
• B)language acquiisition is entirely biological
• C)language acquiisition is universal regardless of context
• D)language acquisition does NOT occur until at least 5 years old

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Definitions:

Residual Plot

A graph that shows the residuals (the differences between observed and predicted values) on the vertical axis against the predicted values on the horizontal axis, used to evaluate the fit of a model.

Curvilinear Regression

A form of regression analysis in which the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable is modeled as an nth degree polynomial.

Specific Risk

A type of risk that affects a very small number of assets, such as a single stock or sector, also known as unsystematic or idiosyncratic risk.

Beta

In finance, it's a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. In statistics, it refers to the second type of error in a hypothesis test.