Describe the social-interactionist view of language development
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Social interactionists emphasize that children’s social skills and language experiences are centrally involved in language development. In this view, an active child strives to communicate, which cues the child’s caregivers to provide appropriate language experiences. These experiences, in turn, help the child relate the content and structure of language to its social meanings. Among social interactionists, disagreement continues over whether or not children are equipped with specialized language structures in the brain. Nevertheless, much support has been provided for their central premise—that children’s social competencies and language experiences greatly affect their language progress.
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a. cue-dependent forgetting. b. encoding failure. c. repression. d. suppression.
Regarding the influence of traits and situations on people's behaviors, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Personality traits tend to be too inconsistent to predict such things as job performance, dangerous driving, or successful marriages. b. Situations greatly influence our behavior as illustrated by the fact that it would be unusual for a person to dance at movie or read a book at a football game. c. Many personality psychologists now place equal weight on traits and situations as ways to explain behavior. d. External circumstances influence the expression of a personality trait.
The Shakespearean character Juliet took a potion that paralyzed her and affected her muscles used for breathing. She probably took something that blocked the action of
a. norepinephrine. c. acetylcholine. b. serotonin. d. dopamine.
Compared to Freudian psychoanalysis, contemporary forms of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
a. do not strictly require dream analysis or free association. b. tend to emphasize early childhood less and the present situation more. c. both of the above d. neither of the above