Ben's mother picks him up from preschool and finds he has a bandage on his knee. When she asks what happened, he says, "I falled off the swing." This is an example of ______.

A. an overregularization error
B. overextension
C. underextension
D. the mutual exclusivity assumption


Answer: A

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