Children are more successful in learning the meaning of a word if they hear it once a day for several days than if they hear it five times in one day. This illustrates the importance of __________.

A. associative learning
B. fast mapping
C. the mutual exclusivity assumption
D. the importance of syntactic context to learning word meanings


Answer: A

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