Your neighbor's 14-month-old toddler says things like "cup!" when he means that he would like a cup of milk. Your neighbor thinks that his toddler is very lazy. What is happening? The toddler is ____
a. language delayed and needs professional assistance
b. using holophrases, which is developmentally appropriate
c. trying to manipulate his father and needs to be disciplined
d. cognitively impaired and might have a genetic disorder
B. Holophrases are single words that a toddler uses that can be used to represent different forms of whole sentences. The toddler is using holophrases, which is consistent with being a toddler.
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a. Gene therapy has proven to be successful with a wide range of diseases and is often the only hope for a cure. b. Gene therapy is widely viewed as unethical and is illegal in the United States. c. Because many diseases are the result of multiple genes and their interactions with other genes and the environment, gene therapy is unlikely to produce quick cures. d. Gene therapy has failed virtually every time it has been tried and has fallen out of favor with clinical researchers.
Choose two of the following approaches to compare and contrast: sensory-functional hypothesis, multiple-factor approach, semantic category approach, and embodied approach. Indicate which proposal you think is strongest and which is weakest, providing information to support your opinion.
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Based on research with nonhuman primates, many researchers believed that there really was not much that is unique about humans' language skills. One challenge to this line of thinking is that ____
a. ?nonhuman primates were able to combine gestures into more and more complex and elaborate messages b. children use languages spontaneously and creatively, while nonhuman primates lack this tendency? c. ?nonhuman primates never learned to combine words in systematic order d. ?nonhuman primates could generate complex messages once they had learned the basic symbols
Threat gestures
a. are a response made by the subordinate animal. b. help reduce overt aggression. c. are a response to appeasement gestures. d. are invariably followed by an attack. e. occur only in instances of interspecific aggression.