You Have Been Fortunate in That Your Nephew Was Born

question 230

Multiple Choice

You have been fortunate in that your nephew was born a few months before you began your developmental course. You remember some of your nephew's interesting behaviours. He has now mastered object permanence, and as you watch him, you remember that in class you discussed that object permanence is also a good measure of ____.

• A) short-term memory
• B) long-term memory
• C) episodic memory
• D) semantic memory

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Definitions:

Linear Relationship

A type of relationship between two variables where the change in one variable is consistently associated with a change in the other variable in a manner that can be depicted with a straight line.

Coefficient Of Correlation

The coefficient of correlation is a statistical measure that calculates the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistic that measures the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).

Linear Regression Model

A statistical method for modelling the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables by fitting a linear equation to observed data.