Children who are not exposed to language until late in life are often unable to use complex features of language. This suggests that learning language involves
A. conditioning.
B. a language acquisition device.
C. a critical period.
D. semantic networks.
Answer: C
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a. irreversibility. b. animism. c. egocentrism. d. centration.
Macintosh is trying to get his grandson to learn the word "apple.". His attempt involves looking at an apple on a tree, making sure that his grandson is also looking, and then saying "apple.". Macintosh's effort to teach his grandson is clearly based on a. infant-directed speech
b. the innate orienting response. c. fast-mapping. d. joint attention.
There is basic agreement among personality psychologists that:
a. personality theories are all the same in terms of the predictions they make. b. personality theories typically study identical phenomena. c. the kind of theories that theorists construct depend to some extent on the theorists' personalities. d. personality theories provide unequivocal hypotheses which yield highly consistent data.
The fundamental sense of being male or female, independent of whether a person conforms to the social rules of gender, is called ________
a. gender typing. b. gender identity. c. gender schema. d. gender development.