Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the influence of the environment on language development?
a. The frequency of parental speech is not related to the size of a child's vocabulary.
b. Naming objects that are the focus of a child's attention is not related to word learning.
c. Children who are passively exposed to television shows, such as cartoons have larger vocabularies than other children.
d. Questioning children while reading to them forces them to identify the meanings of new words.
d
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A) Modeling B) Peer pressure C) Reinforcement and punishment D) Normative expectations
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Developmental theorists tend to agree on which of the following key issues?
a. activity—passivity. b. longitudinal—cross-sectional. c. universality—context specific. d. goodness—badness of human nature