One possible explanation for girls being ahead of boys in language progress is
A) that parents use more child-directed speech with their infant daughters than their infant sons.
B) a biological advantage in earlier development of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex.
C) that female infants initiate more "conversations" with caregivers than male infants.
D) that adults reinforce female infants more than male infants when they begin to coo and babble.
B
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a. inferences. b. evaluative statements. c. Both inferences and evaluative statements d. Neither inferences nor evaluative statements.
How is parents' age related to successful childbearing?
a. Parents' age is unrelated to childbearing success. b. The optimal time for childbearing is during one's teens. c. Women in their 20s are at greater risk for miscarriage and inadequate prenatal care compared with teen and older mothers. d. There may be an optimal time for childbearing for both mothers and fathers.
Piaget's view of development suggests that cognitive processes develop gradually and continuously, whereas the information-processing view suggests that thought processes change rapidly and dramatically about age 12
Indicate whether the statement is true or false