What Data-Organizing Skill Is Being Used When Students Take Data

question 19

Multiple Choice

What data-organizing skill is being used when students take data gathered about the weekly allowances of their classmates and tally it by how many students receive each of the following allowances: seventy-five cents, one dollar, one dollar and fifty cents, two dollars?

• A) Classifying
• B) Ordering observations
• C) Finding patterns
• D) Inferring

Understand the capability of adolescents for rational decision-making under ideal conditions.

Understand the influence of external experiences on adolescents' success during school transitions.

Identify the risks associated with early maturation in boys and girls.

Explain the susceptibility of adolescents to risk-taking behaviors.

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Definitions:

Intuition

Refers to arriving at an answer without quite knowing how one arrived there; a hunch or “gut instinct.”

Nomothetic

A research approach with an emphasis on measurement with a view to making generalizations about human behavior.

Idiographic

A research approach with an emphasis on understanding the subjectivity and individuality of human communication, rather than universal laws of human behavior.

Communication Research

A field of study that examines the process, modes, effects, and strategies of communication.