A Child Looks at Rain and Thunder and Says That

question 98

True/False

A child looks at rain and thunder and says that they are caused by the change in weather. In the sensorimotor stage, this is termed as artificialism. 

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Definitions:

Interaction Effect

In statistics, the effect that exists when two or more variables combine to affect the outcome of a dependent variable in a way that cannot be simply added.

Main Effect

In experimental design, a main effect is the direct impact of an individual independent variable on a dependent variable, ignoring the effects of other variables.

Simple Effect

The effect of one factor at a specific level of another factor in a factorial design experiment.

Factorial Research

A methodological approach in experiments where researchers study the effects of two or more independent variables across multiple levels.