Your Friend David Has Decided to Start Studying Human Development

question 62

Multiple Choice

Your friend David has decided to start studying human development because he hates studying biology. According to your text, will David find happiness in his new area of interest?

• A) Yes, because he can focus on psychological factors and ignore sociocultural and biological factors.
• B) Yes, but only if he enjoys studying sociocultural factors.
• C) No, because studying biological influences is a necessary component in understanding development.
• D) No, because normative age-graded influences are all biological.

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Definitions:

Distribution

The way in which values of a variable or a set of variables are spread or dispersed across a range.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a data set differ from each other and from the mean of the dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the mean.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a dataset, indicating how far each data point lies from the mean.