At What Age Do Children Appear to Develop a "Theory

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Multiple Choice

At what age do children appear to develop a "theory of mind?"

• A) Not before adolescence
• B) Around age 9 or 10
• C) As early as preschool
• D) It varies greatly based upon the sex of child.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Distribution

The standard normal distribution is a special case of the normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in z-tests.

Mean

To determine the arithmetic average, one sums up every number in the collection and divides by the number of elements in the collection.

Standard Deviation

An indicator that measures how much a set of data points spread out or diverge.

Z-Score

An index that quantifies how far a particular value stands from the dataset's mean, measured in units of standard deviations away from the mean.