A child is presented with a picture of an unfamiliar animal and told it is called "a hyrax". That child can use the Taxonomic assumption to draw which of the following inferences?
A. the word "hyrax" can be used only when talking about the single specific example of the animal shown in the picture.
B. the word "hyrax" can be extended to refer to all animals that look like animal in the picture.
C. the word "hyrax" can be extended to refer to items that are thematically related to the animal in the picture, such as the type of food it likes to eat.
D. the child would refuse to learn the word "hyrax" because not enough syntactic context was provided with the picture.
B
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A. attachment B. bonding C. imprinting D. adaptation
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a. guinea pigs learned to turn their heads in a different direction when the behavior-reinforcercontingency was changed b. cats made fewer errors after repeated escapes from a problem box c. rats trained with bran mash made more errors in a maze when their reinforcer was switched to sunflower seeds d. pigeons will peck at a key even when doing so results in a loss of food
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a. exert superordinate commanding influences on others. b. be subordinate and submissive to others. c. share equal-status contacts with one another. d. develop mean-world beliefs.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false