Which of the Following Children Best Illustrate the Use of Effortful

question 68

Multiple Choice

Which of the following children best illustrate the use of effortful control.

• A) John loves dogs and can read books about dogs for hours.
• B) Kate does not like to read and when her mother asks her to read, she watches her favorite TV show instead.
• C) Beth does not like to read, but knows it is important, so she solely attends to reading for twenty minutes a day.
• D) Natalie loves to read about dogs, but when she is assigned reading about cats, she takes her dog for a walk instead of completing the reading assignment.

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Definitions:

Expected Frequency

Expected frequency is a term in statistics indicating the number of times an outcome is anticipated to occur within a set of observations, based on probability.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of probabilities for a statistic that is based on a random sample.

Chi-squared Distribution

A distribution that arises from the sum of the squares of a number of independent random variables.

Multinomial

Related to outcomes or processes that can fall into more than two categories in statistical experiments.