Which of the Following Is False About Children's Understanding of the Natural

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is false about children's understanding of the natural world?

• A)It appears to benefit from an innate tendency to perceive, categorize, and think about living things.
• B)It tends to be simplistic and inaccurate when children lack firsthand experience in nature.
• C)A basic understanding of differences between living and non-living things shows up in the first years of life.
• D)It appears to be fairly consistent and equally nuanced across cultures.

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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment or study that is assumed to depend on or be caused by another variable (the independent variable).

Coefficient Of Determination

A statistical measure in regression analysis that quantifies the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable predictable from the independent variable(s).

Coefficient Of Correlation

Measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables on a scatterplot, ranging from -1 to 1, where 1 means a perfect positive correlation and -1 means a perfect negative correlation.