Which of the following supports Chomsky’s argument that humans are born with a special language acquisition device?

a. Piaget’s evident that sensorimotor comes before language
b. evidence of a critical period in language learning
c. evidence that other species also possess language systems
d. evidence that a concept learning mechanism can accept language as input


Ans: b

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A. difficult to teach until children reached the seventh grade B. easily learned by children by the end of one year of training C. developed more fully in children trained from fourth through sixth grade than children who were new to the forecasting problems in the seventh grade D. not easily generalized to other types of problems such as using evidence to forecast avalanches

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a. ?psychoanalytic b. ?humanistic c. ?behavioral d. ?cognitive

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a. younger children who had a recall test b. younger children who had a recognition test c. older children who had a recall test d. older children who had a recognition test

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Which of the following pioneered a theory connecting the size of the primate neocortex to group size, grooming and language evolution?

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