Based on Her Experience with Young Infants, Maria, a Child-Care

question 74

Multiple Choice

Based on her experience with young infants, Maria, a child-care worker, wonders if children are born with a built-in storehouse of rules that are common to all human languages. Maria is pondering the concept of

• A) linguistic expansions.
• B) infant-directed speech.
• C) private speech.
• D) universal grammar.

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Definitions:

Coefficients

Numbers or parameters in a mathematical equation that multiply variables, often used to describe the relationship between variables in statistical models.

Probability Distribution

A math function tasked with computing the odds of different potential outcomes during an experiment.

Multiple Regression Model

A statistical technique that uses several explanatory variables to predict the outcome of a response variable.

Degrees of Freedom

Degrees of freedom refer to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a system without violating any constraint.