How does infants' perception of the human language change during the first year of life?
What will be an ideal response?
At birth, neonates are able to recognize the difference in sounds used in all human languages. They can be trained to respond differently to different types of sounds, as apparent in habituation studies where they suck harder when exposed to new language stimuli. As infants develop, they lose the ability to detect the sounds of languages they have not been exposed to. Infants also learn to ignore differences in small, meaningless sounds in their native language.
You might also like to view...
Dr. Spock is using a microscope to observe a reproductive germ cell. He suddenly remarks, "That cell just underwent meiosis!" What has Dr. Spock just seen?
a. One cell ingesting another cell b. A cell dividing into new cells with twice as many chromosomes as the original reproductive cell c. The process of fertilization d. A cell dividing into new cells with half of the chromosomes of the original reproductive cell
Lithium is most commonly prescribed for which disorder?
a. seasonal affective disorder b. endogenous depression c. reactive depression d. bipolar disorder
If you use the Internet, you are probably familiar with emoticons: facial expressions displayed using a combination of typographic figures, e.g., :-) for a smile. Asian countries have their own set of emoticons; in these (which are viewed without having to turn one's head), there are different smiling facial figures for a man smiling (^_^) and a woman smiling (^ . ^), since in Japan, women are not supposed to exhibit a wide, uninhibited smile. This difference between the men's and women's emoticons in Japan is due to a(n)
a. emblem. b. display rule. c. affect blend. d. decoding difference.
When Johnny acts up, his father spanks him. This is an example of
A. induction. B. power assertion. C. love withdrawal. D. distraction.