When People Are About to Make a Pointing or Reaching

question 33

Multiple Choice

When people are about to make a pointing or reaching movement to a particular location, the _______________ becomes active, indicating location of the target.

• A) parietal reach region
• B) extrastriate body area
• C) parahippocampal place area
• D) anterior part of the intraparietal sulcus
• E) posterior part of the intraparietal sulcus

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Definitions:

One-way ANOVA

A statistical test used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent (unrelated) groups based on one independent variable.

F-ratio

A statistical measure used in analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine the degree of variation between sample means in comparison to variation within the samples.

Critical Value

A point on the test distribution that is compared to the test statistic to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Degrees of Freedom

Refers to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or a statistical test.