A Teacher Conducts a Study in Which She Records the Names

question 18

Multiple Choice

A teacher conducts a study in which she records the names of students who come top in her statistics class every year to see if she can find any patterns over time.She has been doing this for 16 years.What type of dependent measure does her study have?

• A)Nominal.
• B)Ordinal.
• C)Interval.
• D)Ratio.
• E)None of the above.

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Definitions:

Preoperational

Refers to a stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 2 to 7 years use symbols to represent their earlier sensorimotor discoveries but lack the ability to perform operations or use logic.

Cognitive Development

The process through which a person's ability to think, understand, and learn evolves over the course of their life, starting from infancy.

Symbolic Functions

Cognitive operations that enable a person to use symbols, signs, or objects to represent something that is not physically present.

Preoperational Stage

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, typically from ages 2 to 7, characterized by symbolic thinking, egocentrism, and difficulty understanding conservation.