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
The psychodynamic perspective is derived from ____ theory
a. ?psychoanalytic b. ?humanistic c. ?behavioral d. ?cognitive
If you gave children a recall test and a recognition test, which group of children would probably perform the worst?
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
Which of the following pioneered a theory connecting the size of the primate neocortex to group size, grooming and language evolution?
a. Steven Binker. b. Robin Dunbar. c. Paul Broca. d. Clever Hans.