A Nutritionist Has Designed an Intervention to Motivate Parents of Preschool

question 31

Multiple Choice

A nutritionist has designed an intervention to motivate parents of preschool children to provide more fruits and vegetables to their children. To study the effectiveness of this intervention, the nutritionist will conduct an experiment in which half of the selected study participants will receive the intervention and the others will not. Study subjects will be recruited from families with children who receive medical care for their children through the university health center. The nutritionist will compare the amount of fruit consumed per day by the children in families who received the intervention and by those who did not. Which of the following is true?

• A)The amount of fruit consumed is the treatment.
• B)The amount of fruit consumed is the factor.
• C)The amount of fruit consumed is the response.
• D)The amount consumed is the carryover effect from before and after the intervention.

Recognize the special considerations for children with disabilities in a play environment.

Assess play environments based on Jones and Prescott's dimensions.

Determine appropriate materials for diverse needs in play settings.

Identify sources of aggression in children and strategies to address them.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, indicating how much they differ from the mean.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set, indicating the spread or dispersion of the set.

Chebyshev's Theorem

A statistical theorem that gives an inequality for assessing the probability that a random variable differs from its mean.

Empirical Rules

A statistical rule stating that for a normal distribution, nearly all data will fall within three standard deviations of the mean.