Based on Habituation and Recovery Research, Dahlia's Parents Know That

question 58

Multiple Choice

Based on habituation and recovery research, Dahlia's parents know that between 6 and 12 months old, Dahlia will be able to

• A) only sort items into one or two basic categories, such as animals and people.
• B) group objects into an impressive array of categories like food items, furniture, birds, animals, kitchen utensils, and spatial location.
• C) organize her physical world but not yet categorize her emotional and social worlds.
• D) sort familiar and novel items based on color, size, shape, and function.

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Definitions:

Measures of Correlation

Statistical techniques used to determine the degree to which two variables are related, indicating how changes in one variable are associated with changes in another.

Variance

A measure of the extent to which a set of scores vary on either side of their mean value. The square root of variance gives the standard deviation.

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics involve statistical techniques that summarize or describe the main features of a collection of data, including measures like mean, median, and mode.

Mean, Median, Mode

Statistical measures where mean is the average value, median is the middle value when data is ordered, and mode is the most frequently occurring value in a data set.