Baby Lindsay has combined her reaching, grasping, and sucking schemes into a higher-order scheme that allows her to reach for her pacifier and put it into her mouth. This achievement is an example of
A) equilibrium.
B) organization.
C) assimilation.
D) accommodation.
B
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Drugs are believed to act on the nervous system by __________
a. affecting the deactivation of neurotransmitters b. mimicking the effects of neurotransmitters c. changing the shape of the synapse d. all of these e. affecting the deactivation and mimicking the effects of neurotransmitters
Gina and Mario have decided to only have one child. Based on the text, Gina and Mario are similar to __________ of American families who have children.
A. 5% B. 10% C. 15% D. 20%
Young children's ability to comprehend language:
A. are generally ahead of their ability to produce the same language. B. develop at exactly the same rate as their ability to produce language since both depend on the same underlying representations. C. are extremely difficult to test and have been very little studied. D. show that children comprehend very little of the language they hear or produce.
As proposed by Noam Chomsky, a language acquisition device (LAD) ________.
A. allows parents to directly teach language to children B. is a linguistic tutoring program that parents can use to help children learn grammatical rules C. is a computer program that attempts to generate the linguistic rules that are needed for language acquisition D. is an innate system that enables children to understand and speak in a rule-oriented fashion