Sally Is Very Active Physically and She Likes to Play

question 189

Multiple Choice

Sally is very active physically and she likes to play with trucks and airplanes and prefers males as playmates.Much of her play behavior is masculine.One explanation for this is that __________.

• A)she was exposed to high levels of estrogen in the womb during prenatal development
• B)she was exposed to high levels of androgens in the womb during prenatal development
• C)she was exposed to high levels of teratogens in the womb during prenatal development
• D)she was exposed to high levels of cortisol in the womb during prenatal development

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Definitions:

Variance

Measures the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; mathematically, it is the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

SSE

Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used in statistics to quantify the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

SST

In statistics, SST stands for Total Sum of Squares, which is a measure of the total variance in a dataset, representing the sum of squared differences from the mean.

One-Way ANOVA

A statistical test that assesses whether there are any statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent (unrelated) groups.