Claire Wants to Write a Paper About How Often Animals

question 10

Multiple Choice

Claire wants to write a paper about how often animals use observational learning.Which of the following should Claire NOT include as evidence to support her point that animals use
Observational learning?

• A) A rat learns to run through a maze quickly to get the food at the end of the maze.
• B) A lab-raised monkey sees a wild monkey's reaction to a snake and then becomes fearful of snakes.
• C) A puppy learns to get to the food kept in the pantry after watching his mother open the door.
• D) A cheetah injures rather than kills her prey in order to teach her cubs how to hunt.

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Real Rate of Return

The rate of return on an investment after adjusting for inflation, representing the actual purchasing power of the investment's earnings.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values diverge from the mean.

Correlation

A statistical measure that describes the extent to which two variables change together, indicating a relationship but not causality.