Ms. Varria holds up a particularly curly French fry and says, "Wow! This is a corkscrew fry!" Four-year-old Danita points to a little girl with curly hair and says, "Corkscrew hair!" Danita is using __________ to decipher the meaning of
corkscrew.
A) fast-mapping
B) syntactic bootstrapping
C) the principle of mutual exclusivity
D) telegraphic speech
B
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According to Dweck, the best parenting advice one can give to help children succeed is ________
a) praise the good behavior and punish the bad b) praise the good but say nothing about the bad behavior c) constructively criticize and link with praise for effort d) criticize bad behavior and minimally praise good behavior
Which of the following refers to the set of distributions that, although symmetrical and bell-shaped, are not normally distributed?
a. Student's t distribution b. Gosset's t distribution c. The z distribution d. None of the above
The principal limitation of the information-processing perspective is that
A) it contradicts Piaget's theory of cognitive development. B) its components are difficult to reassemble into a broad, comprehensive theory of development. C) it provides an imprecise account of the mechanisms of cognitive development. D) it does not offer applications for teaching techniques that advance children's thinking.
Dr. Ortiz wants to uncover reasons why people choose to start smoking, despite the amount of information available regarding its dangers. Which assessment modality would be appropriate?
a) Projective b) Unobtrusiveness c) Global ratings d) Psychobiological