Eight-month-old Thea and her mother watch a grasshopper in their yard. Her mother labels the grasshopper and describes what it is doing. Thea and her mother are engaged in
A) telegraphic speech.
B) referential communication.
C) syntactic bootstrapping.
D) joint attention.
D
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A. strength B. skin pigmentation C. mental acuity D. feelings of security
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a. atherosclerotic c. blockage b. hemorrhagic d. traumatic
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a. ?classical conditioning b. ?operant conditioning c. ?neural networks d. ?latent learning
Actions that take the problem from one state to another are known as
a. intermediate states. b. subgoals. c. operators. d. mental sets.