The Study of Meaning, or the Association of Words with Ideas

question 2

Multiple Choice

The study of meaning, or the association of words with ideas, feelings, and context, is known as __________.

• A) noise
• B) kinesics
• C) semantics
• D) grammar

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A gauge for the level of deviation or dispersion within a group of quantities.

μ

The symbol used to represent the population mean in statistics.

Frequency Distributions

A statistical tool that organizes data by recording the number of times each value or group of values occurs.

Normal Distributions

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.