What Is Epistemic Cognition

question 66

Multiple Choice

What is epistemic cognition?

• A) the ways in which individuals understand the nature of knowledge and how they arrive at ideas, beliefs, and conclusions
• B) polar reasoning in which knowledge and accounts of phenomena are viewed as either right or wrong with no in-between
• C) knowledge is viewed as relative, dependent on the situation and thinker
• D) reasoning that synthesizes contradictions among perspectives

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Definitions:

Scatterplot

A type of graphical representation in which individual data points are plotted to examine the relationship between two variables.

Points

In statistics, refers to data points on a graph or in a dataset.

Residuals

The difference between the observed values of the dependent variable and the values predicted by the model in regression analysis.

Scatterplots

Graphs in which the values of two variables are plotted along two axes, the pattern of the resulting points revealing any correlation present.