Suppose That You Are Reading a Story to a Group

question 45

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are reading a story to a group of You say to the children, "Try to think about how it would feel if you were dancing around this classroom." Based on the research of Foley and Ratner (1998) , you would probably find that

• A) some of the children would later report that they had in fact danced around the classroom.
• B) because children do not develop visual imagery until they are about 7 or 8, they would typically report, "You told us to think about dancing-but I didn't really dance."
• C) many children would report that they had actually heard dance music.
• D) the children would have no recall of the instructions, because they have so much difficulty understanding instructions.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, used in Z-tests and other statistical analyses.

Symmetry

A characteristic where an object or design is made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.

Unit of Measurement

A definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same quantity.

Modality

The number of peaks or high points in the frequency distribution of a dataset.