What Is Optimization

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Multiple Choice

What is optimization?

• A)A statement about what will happen or might happen in the future, for example, predicting future sales or employee turnover.
• B)A statistical process that finds the way to make a design, system, or decision as effective as possible, for example, finding the values of controllable variables that determine maximal productivity or minimal waste.
• C)Predictions based on time-series information.
• D)A statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables.

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Definitions:

Simple Reflexes

Inborn automatic responses to certain stimuli that are present from birth, such as the sucking reflex in infants.

Mental Representations

Internal cognitive symbols that represent external reality, allowing individuals to process information and make sense of the world.

Primary Circular Reactions

Repetitive actions focused on the body that infants engage in by chance and then continue because they find them pleasurable, marking a stage in sensorimotor development.

Assimilation

The process by which individuals or groups absorb the cultural aspects of another, often the dominant, society.