When a child is asked to explain a (relatively) complicated problem to a younger child than herself, she will typically adjust her speech to be simpler. This fact is supportive of which of the following claims?
A. Piaget's claim that children are egocentric
B. the claim that children understand the need to adjust their speech to be appropriate to the specific situation
C. the claim that children require scaffolding to learn how to communicate
D. the claim that children are born with an innate grammar learning mechanism
Question 2Which of the following factors help children tell richer narratives?
A. a parent who provides repetitive scaffolding.
B. telling a narrative about an unfamiliar, abstract situation.
C. a parent who provides elaborative scaffolding.
D. telling a narrative about a fictional story.
Question 3Children's early narratives are said to be conversational in nature because:
A. children tell them in a conversational context in which their parents ask questions and probe for needed information.
B. children tell stories in which the characters have lots of conversations.
C. children of parents who use repetitive responses have increased language complexity.
D. children of parents who use elaboration produce longer and more complex utterances later.
Question 4When young children engage in conversations with their peers, they:
A. show more sophisticated conversational skills than when they speak to adults because they find talking with peers more socially engaging.
B. show less sophisticated conversational skills than when they speak to adults because their peers do not provide scaffolding as adults do.
C. show equally sophisticated conversational skills compared to when they speak to adults, although their style of conversation is quite different.
D. young children do not engage in conversations with their peers.
Question 5A child who responds by saying I like trucks after her mother says Eat your peas has demonstrated which of the following?
A. a non-contingent response
B. a contingent response
C. a violation of the maxim of quality
D. private speech
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