When a Child Holds Up His or Her Hand with All

question 23

Multiple Choice

When a child holds up his or her hand with all fingers and thumb extended and says "I'm five years old," he or she is using nonverbal communication that serves a(n) _____ function.

• A) repeating
• B) accenting
• C) complementing
• D) regulating
• E) substituting

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Definitions:

Parameter

A parameter is a numerical characteristic of a population, such as its mean or standard deviation, as opposed to a statistic of a sample.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data.

Outliers

Observations in a dataset that are significantly distant from the other observations, potentially indicating a measurement error or a different population.

Parameter

A numerical characteristic that describes a statistical population, such as a mean or standard deviation.