Summarize how living in poverty affects language development.
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- A longitudinal study examined the relationship between living in poverty and language development in children.
- As levels of affluence increased, parents spent more time talking to their children.
- Children of families receiving welfare assistance were exposed to 13 million fewer words by age 4 compared to families with professional occupations.
- Children of families receiving welfare assistance were twice as likely to hear prohibitions compared to children in more affluent families.
- The greater the number and variety of words heard during development, the better children's performance on measures of intellectual achievement.
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a. attachment anxiety. b. reactive agreeableness. c. passionate love. d. emotional reciprocity.
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A. variable-ratio schedule B. reinforcement C. conditioned response D. superstitious behavior
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a. be a male with Down syndrome b. be a female who will later experience problems in the development of the reproductive system c. be a typical female who will not experience cognitive or physical problems d. not survive past the age of 3
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a. componential b. contextual c. experiential d. metacognitive