Malik Is Playing with a Red Triangular Toy

question 14

Multiple Choice

Malik is playing with a red triangular toy. He hears an adult use the novel word block. Malik is likely to think this new word refers to the toy, rather than its shape, it's color, or some other characteristic of it. This illustrates the concept of

• A) cognitive bias.
• B) universal language.
• C) bootstrapping.
• D) mutual exclusivity.
• E) whole object assumption.

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Definitions:

Population Means

The averages of different populations, providing a measure of central tendency for each population's data.

Large Samples

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Lower Confidence Bound

The lower limit of a confidence interval, indicating the smallest value that, based on the data, might be considered a plausible estimate of a parameter.

Population Proportions

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