If Dr Im Believes in a Nurture Explanation of Development, She

question 196

Multiple Choice

If Dr. Im believes in a nurture explanation of development, she might make which statement?

• A) "Personality is inherited."
• B) "Gender differences in friendship styles are programmed at birth."
• C) "Good teachers can raise intelligence test scores in children from impoverished homes."
• D) "People are destined to follow in their parents' footsteps."

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a list of numbers sorted in ascending or descending order, or the mean of the two middle numbers if the list has an even number of values.

Middle Value

Also known as the median, it is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, array, or distribution.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, representing the most common or popular response in a collection of data.

Frequently Occurring

Happening or appearing in a pattern that repeats often within a given time frame.