Marcy is having lunch with her mother when a friend stops by the table to say hello
"Marcy, this is my friend, and her name is Marcy, too," the mother says. The child looks up and says, "You can't be named Marcy. That is my name." In a linguistic sense, this example demonstrates
A) overregulation.
B) overextension.
C) underregulation.
D) underextension.
Answer: D
You might also like to view...
Bandura's social learning theory emphasized
a. economic models of behavior. b. the role of cognitions. c. an evolutionary foundation. d. classical conditioning.
Which mind-brain view is most likely to be held by a neuroscientist?
A. idealistic monism B. materialistic monism C. interactionism D. dualism
Outbursts of crying and anger are fairly ____ in the early years of life; by middle childhood the frequency of such emotions has ____
a. universal; grown exponentially b. unusual; disappeared c. rare; increased substantially d. frequent; declined substantially
When asked where the sun goes at night, four-year-old Kiet explains to his dad that it goes to sleep. Later that day, Kiet gets upset because he believes his sister's glass contains more juice than his glass. Both glasses actually contain the same amount of juice, but Kiet is confused because of the tall and thin shape of his sister's glass. From these instances, we can say that Kiet is in the ________ stage of Piaget's cognitive development.
A. preoperational B. concrete operations C. formal operations D. sensorimotor