Consider the following three statements: As children grow older, their weight increases. As children grow older, they expand the
ir vocabulary. As children's weight increases, their vocabulary expands. Does statement #3 describe a correlational relationship? A causal relationship? Explain your answer.
This would be a correlational relationship. Correlational
relationship means the occurances can occur at the same time...they
might be associated but one does not cause the other. Casual relationship is basically a cause/effect relationship...one event occurs because of the other.
Just
because a childs weight increases, does not mean their vocabulary
expands...there are skinny people with great vocabulary. However, that
does not mean that a " chubby " person cannot have good vocabulary.