_____, Such as Cooing and Babbling, Do Not Represent Objects

question 56

Multiple Choice

_____, such as cooing and babbling, do not represent objects or actions, so infant crying is not a primitive form of language.

• A) Receptive skills
• B) Nonverbal cues
• C) Prelinguistic vocalizations
• D) Linguistic vocalizations

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Definitions:

Categorical Variables

Variables that represent categories and can take on a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or in the calculation of a statistic, typically in the context of parameter estimation.

Chi-Square Distribution

A statistical distribution used to describe the distribution of a sum of the squares of independent random variables.

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more groups to see if at least one is statistically significantly different from the others.