One thing that animals have not demonstrated the ability to do with language that humans can is use language to describe itself. This use is called _____
a) reflexiveness.
b) specialization.
c) prevarication.
d) duality of patterning sounds, which is used to produce an infinite number of unique utterances.
Answer: a
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a. Shaping b. Latent learning c. Stimulus generalization d. Stimulus discrimination
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