In what way is use of a riddle an example of a child's metalinguistic awareness?
What will be an ideal response?
Riddles often use word play in their solutions. Children must understand the intentional use of the multiple meaning words in order to find the riddle comprehensible and humorous.
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Closer objects cast larger images on the retina than do objects that are farther away, a _____ depth cue known as _____.
A) monocular; linear perspective B) monocular; relative size C) binocular; relative size D) binocular; linear perspective
Most of the brain's excitatory ionotropic synapses use the neurotransmitter glutamate.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
What helps children with trisomy-21 develop more favorably?
a. hormone replacement therapy b. weekly motor treatments c. a heart transplant d. supportive and encouraging parents
Francis Cecil Sumner is best known
a. as a comparative psychologist, who wrote an influential book on animal behavior, titled The Animal Mind. b. for writing the first American psychology textbook and teaching the first psychology course. c. as the first President of the American Psychological Association. d. as the first African-American man to earn a doctoral degree in psychology in 1920 and chair of the Psychology Department at Howard University.