Drawings That Represent the Areas Taken Up by the Various

question 217

Multiple Choice

Drawings that represent the areas taken up by the various body parts on the motor cortex appear distorted because they are based on which of the following aspects regarding these body parts?

• A)their relative size
• B)their tactile sensitivity
• C)their evolutionary origin
• D)their dexterity

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Definitions:

Kurtosis

A measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; high kurtosis indicates a distribution with heavy tails and a sharp peak, while low kurtosis indicates a flatter distribution.

Histogram

This is a graphical representation of data using bars of different heights where each bar groups numbers into ranges.

Unimodal

Describing a distribution with a single peak or mode, representing the most frequently occurring value.

Empirical Rules

A set of guidelines that indicate how the data are spread in a normal distribution, specifically stating that approximately 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the data fall within one, two, and three standard deviations from the mean, respectively.