Information-Processing Theorists Believe That the Development of Thinking Is a Result

question 83

Multiple Choice

Information-processing theorists believe that the development of thinking is a result of

• A) improvements in mental hardware only that occur with age.
• B) improvements in mental software only that occur with age.
• C) improvements in both mental hardware and software that occur with age.
• D) more sophisticated theories that children create.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

F-distribution

A probability distribution that arises in the analysis of variance (ANOVA), used to compare variances and determine statistical significance.

T-distribution

A probability distribution that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample.