Which of the Following Is an Accurate Statement About the Effect

question 87

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the effect of schooling on children's cognitive development in middle childhood?

• A) The rate of progression through the concrete operational stage does not predict how well children will reason in adolescence and childhood.
• B) School experiences are linked to the emergence of advanced cognitive skills over and above normal maturation.
• C) The rate of cognitive development doesn't matter, so long as everyone gets to the same place developmentally.
• D) Unschooled children are also no less proficient at generalizing a learned concept or principle to some new setting.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Deviate

Another term for Z-score, highlighting its role in standard normal distribution.

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure used in statistics to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Normal Distribution

A symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution of data where most of the observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities of values taper off equally in both directions from the center.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all the values by the number of values.