Week #7 (The First Two Years: Language Development) – Flashcards
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Asking for a pint of beer when you have not had the access to a beer for a bit and want one is an example of
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Mand
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Darius is learning the names of two or three new objects or events everyday. This rapid increase in vocabulary is referred to as _______ explosion
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Naming
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Universal grammar is Chomsky's term for his observation that
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all young children master basic grammar according to a schedule
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Amy spontaneously says things such as "mamamaamamammamam" and daddaadadadadada" about how old is Amy likely to be?
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6-10 months
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According to the social-pragmatic theory infants communicate because
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humans are social beings
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Infants' repetition of certain syllables at the age of about 6 or 7 months are called
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babbling
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Saying "beer" when you see someone else drinking beer is most likely
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tact
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The process by which behavior produces its own consequences is called
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automatic reinforcement
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Becky is a 4-month-old infant whose mother uses a high-pitched voice simple words or phrases, and lots of repetition when she speaks. Becky delights in her mother's use of
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child-directed speech
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The language acquisition device (LAD) was proposed by Chomsky to explain
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children's ability to derived the rules of grammar quickly and effectively
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Saying "beer" when asked "what do you drink at the bar is an example of
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Intraverbal
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The process by which a behavior is reinforced through the actions of another person is called
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Social reinforcement
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Javier's mother is a native Spanish speaker, and his father is a native English speaker. He hears both languages equally often and is addressed in Spanish by his mother and in English by his father. If Javier is a typical toddler, how will his language skills be affected by this early experience
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He will be able to differentiate between both languages
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Peyton is a deaf baby whose parents have been communicating with him in American Sign Language. At about what age will Peyton express his first signs
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12 months
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The term holophrase is used to denote
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the infant's use of one word to express a whole thought
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Bae is a Korean toddler, his cousin Troy is a Korean American toddler. Bae is learning to speak Korean, while Troy is learning to speak English. What will be the most noticeable difference in Bae's and Troy's use of language
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Bae will use more verbs than Troy does
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explanations must be ruled out before specific genetic mechanisms are considered to be the basis for language development
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Environmental
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Saying "beer" when someone else says beer is an example of
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Echoic
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What theorist said that children learn language as a result of reinforcements given by parents and caregivers
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Skinner
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James use the word "more" to mean "I want another cookie" in case more is a
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holophase and mand
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According to Chomsky's theory of language acquisition
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children have an inborn ability to learn language
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A problem with classifying vocal behavior by its form and not its function is
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failing to acknowledge that the word "milk" could be used to mean many things failing to acknowledge to "milk, moo juice and "miew" could be used to mean the same thing
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Which of the following is a language development that requires understanding another person's perspective
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pointing
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Brodie just started saying single words such as "mama" and "doggie" About how old is Brodie likely to be?
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12 months
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By 10 months of age, Alan has a vocabulary of a dozen words. B. F. Skinner would have attributed Alan's rapid speech development mainly to
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the amount his parents talk to him
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As infants acquire language, they say more ________ than any other parts of speech
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nouns
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During the newborn period, the primary means of communication is
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reflexive
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On average, children begin saying recognizable words at around ___ months of age
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12
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Which of the following is the most parsimonious explanation for why a pig (with wings) would fly
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The pig has wings and some animals with wings are capable of flight
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A phoneme in behavior analytic terms is
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The smallest structural unit that exerts stimulus control over behavior
