A baby points to its bottle and says, "Baaaa!" Her mother responds by saying, "Yes, that's a bottle." The two of them are engaging in

A) inner speech.
B) infant-directed speech.
C) social speech.
D) deferred imitation.


C

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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What did researchers find when they compared plant and animal naming of rural villagers in Central America to urban dwellers in the United States?

a. People who rely on the plants and animals for daily needs often named them at a more specific level. b. People from both communities relied on the same basic-level category names. c. The Itza' Maya and the urban dwellers had such different ways of categorizing nature that direct comparisons were impossible. d. Vast differences in plant and animal life in the two locations made it impossible to make any direct comparisons.

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Dr. Broca wants to measure the intelligence of children between the ages of 6 and 11 years old. Assuming he can put the brains back into their heads with no harm to the children, which of the following methods will give him the most accurate results?

A) Weighing the brains B) Measuring the size (or volume) of the brains C) Inspecting the rate at which the synapses are being generated and pruned D) Measuring the thickness of the frontal and temporal lobes

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