In studying the language development of children from low SES families, researchers have found that children's receptive vocabulary scores at 36 months can be predicted by
a. the presence of a father in the home a year earlier
b. the frequency of fathers' book reading to them a year earlier
c. the number of adult books in the household a year earlier
d. the frequency of fathers' book reading to boys, but not to girls, at 24 months
b
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Which of the following is the best example of a qualitative change in development?
A. Children grow taller but also become heavier as they get older. B. Older children have larger vocabularies than younger children. C. Children can run faster and farther as they get older. D. Adolescents become more systematic in the way they go about solving problems.
Between 2001 and 2011, the percentage of children under the age of 5 who were in organized child care:
a. increased dramatically. b. decreased dramatically. c. decreased slightly. d. stayed about the same.
Special class students who participate in general physical education, art, and music classes maintain very close contact with the larger school environment
a. True b. False
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