What evidence suggests that young children are learning rules of grammar?
a. Young children frown when an adult makes a grammatical error
b. The brain areas responsible for grammar mature rapidly in young children.
c. Young children learn language more easily than older people do.
d. Young children's mistakes imply that they are using certain rules.
d
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a. are the smallest significant sound units in spoken language b. are the smallest units of language that carry meaning c. are the same as a language's alphabet d. provide the underlying meaning in a spoken sentence
According to your textbook, what is the most likely explanation for why first-born children tend to have higher IQ's?
A) prenatal exposure to flu B) they are the oldest sibling and tutor younger siblings C) temperature during infancy D) exposure to sunlight during infancy
Pregnant women are wise to avoid eating __________, which are heavily contaminated with __________
A) long-lived predatory fish; mercury B) freshwater fish; lead C) long-lived predatory fish; polychlorinated biphenyls D) freshwater fish; radiation
A husband and wife are expecting their first child and they want to be perfect parents, so they have been getting a lot of information about parenting. At a lecture on parenting styles,
they learn that the style that is most likely to produce an effective parent-child bond is one that a. places primary emphasis on the importance of discipline and the setting of limits. b. makes demands on a child, but also keeps channels of communication open. c. encourages a child to control and modify his or her own behavior, with little parental intervention. d. encourages a child to view parental interactions as a model for future behavior.