A Criticism of Traditional Piagetian Tasks Is That

question 88

Multiple Choice

A criticism of traditional Piagetian tasks is that:

• A) infants may be able to perform successfully on the tasks without having the underlying representational competencies.
• B) infants may have underlying representational competencies that they are unable to express through their performance on the tasks.
• C) the tasks are only reliable when infants from certain cultural groups are tested.
• D) the procedures are so complex that other researchers are unable to reproduce Piaget's methods.

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Definitions:

Normally Distributed

Describes a probability distribution that is symmetrical around the mean, with a specific bell shape indicating that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Sample Variances

Measures of the dispersion or spread within a set of sample data, quantifying how much the samples differ from each other.

Test Statistic

A calculated value from sample data used to determine if a hypothesis about a population parameter is supported.

Random Samples

Selections made in such a way that each individual in the population has an equal chance of being included in the sample.