One reason that young children are able to learn the labels for objects in their environment is that

a. they understand that speakers often name the objects that the child is paying attention to
b. they learn that the object being named is often one that the speaker is paying attention to
c. they have an innate understanding of word-referent relationships
d. they pick up word-referent associations as their brains mature


b

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A researcher's theory that teaching the alphabet backwards shortens the time to learn letters was not found to be statistically significant. It could be that

a. this method of teaching letters is not helpful. b. the method of teaching letters is helpful but there were problems with the design of the study. c. the method of teaching letters is helpful but the design lacked the power to reject the false null hypothesis. d. All of these are true. e. None of these is true.

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Discuss factors that contribute to the overrepresentation of children of color.

What will be an ideal response?

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What statement most accurately describes a person who has mastered basic facts?

a) He or she can use a model or a picture to figure out the answer to a basic fact problem. b) He or she has a conceptual understanding of the basic facts and can access her background knowledge to, with some time, figure out the answer to a basic fact problem. c) He or she has obtained a set of essential understandings and progressed through a set of stages so that she just "knows" the answers to certain basic fact problems. d) He or she can use a set of manipulatives and reasoning to figure out the answer to a basic fact problem.

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What is Sigmund Freud's second psychosexual stage?

What will be an ideal response?

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