As 2-year-old David and his father go into the family garden one day, Dad exclaims, "Look at all the wonderful daisies!" David infers that the only plants blooming in the garden must be called daisies. David's inference is an example of:
A) expansion
B) fast mapping
C) functionalism
D) semantic bootstrapping

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Fast mapping is the process by which children quickly connect a new word with its meaning after only a brief encounter, as David did with "daisies."

As 2-Year-Old David and His Father Go into the Family