Nativist Noam Chomsky believed that
A) children are born with a series of inborn modules that are specialized for different aspects of language acquisition.
B) reinforcement and imitation fully explain language development in toddlers and preschool-age children.
C) the rules of sentence organization are too complex to be directly taught to or discovered by even a cognitively sophisticated young child.
D) children's innate desire to verbally interact with others promotes language development in most cultures throughout the world.
C
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a. a self-serving bias b. a self-fulfilling prophecy c. information integration theory d. the fundamental attribution error
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a. upsetting thoughts b. ineffective behavior c. stress inoculation d. bodily effects
Monism is defined as a philosophical view that considers a. mind to be the product of activity in the brain
b. mind and body to be separate entities. c. the senses as the source of knowledge. d. reality to exist when it enters the thinking of an observer.
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a. young children living in married-parent families b. preschool-age children living with an unmarried female adult c. children under the age of 6 years d. children between 6 and 16 years