Oscar and his mother are looking at a picture book. Oscar’s mother points to the duck and labels it. When Oscar’s mother points and names the duck, Oscar also looks at the duck. Oscar demonstrates:

The ________ variable is the outcome variable and is believed to be affected by the variable manipulated by the experimenter

a. intervening b. predictor c. dependent d. independent e. randomized

Alvin is blind and suffers from autism and intellectual developmental disorder. He can play extremely complicated musical pieces on the piano, however, after hearing them only once, even though he has no formal musical training

Alvin is best described as having ______. a. savant syndrome c. idiopathic autism b. Wernicke's syndrome d. Stockholm syndrome