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Jason Is a Graduate Student Who Is Studying Developmental Psychology

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Jason is a graduate student who is studying developmental psychology. He wants to know how a person develops the characteristics that make them different than everyone else and how those characteristics remain stable through the lifespan. He is mostly concerned with which central issue of developmental science?


Definitions:

Independent Variable

An independent variable is a variable that is manipulated or categorically separated in an experiment to observe its effect on a dependent variable.

Regression Line

A line of best fit through a scatter plot of data points that shows the relationship between independent and dependent variables in regression analysis.

Sum of Squares

A statistical technique used to describe the total variation in a dataset.

Regression

A statistical approach for modeling how a dependent variable is related to one or more independent variables.

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