Question 1

Who coined the term language acquisition device? What theory did this person adhere to?

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Question 2

Children combine several gestures in their pretend play at around the same time that they first show two or three-word sentences in their speech. This supports the ________ view of language development.

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Question 3

Linguists refer to the average length of a sentence as ________.

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Question 4

Define babbling.

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Question 5

What is the youngest age at which infants can remember specific objects?

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Question 6

Kayla was given several different, brightly colored balls to play with one after the other. After about ball number seven, Kayla seemed to lose interest. When she was given a stuffed animal, she showed renewed interest. An element of schematic learning called ________ is behind Kayla's renewed interest.

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Question 7

The violation of ________ method is a research strategy in which a child is habituated to a display of objects and then is shown another display in which the objects move in a way which is different to what the infant is anticipating.

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Question 8

In some languages, nouns and verbs are stressed sounds and children who speak those languages seem to learn nouns and verbs first. In other languages, prefixes and suffixes are stressed and children learn those sounds first. This idea that children are preprogrammed to focus on "stressed" sounds is a part of the ________ view of language development.

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Question 9

What other activity will typically accompany babbling when a child wants something?

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Question 10

According to Werker, what purpose does IDS serve?

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Question 11

The innate language processor that some theorists believe children are born with is called the ________.

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Question 12

According to your text, all grammatical markers are missing from ________, the short simple sentences children generally begin to use between 18 - 24 months.

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Question 13

List, in order, the techniques involved in the substages of sensorimotor development between the ages of one and 12 months.

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Question 14

How do the beliefs of Spelke differ from Piaget in terms of object permanence?

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Question 15

At what age do children develop object permanence? Give an example of how a child might demonstrate this ability.

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Question 16

According to B.F. Skinner, how does babbling develop into language?

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Question 17

The ________ style is associated with strings of words that involve common interactions with adults.

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Question 18

When a baby makes repetitive vowel sounds, such as the UUU sound, we call it ________ .

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Question 19

Novelty preference and visual recognition tests are measuring ________.

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Question 20

What are holophrases? Give an example.

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Quiz 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy