Explain how the use of verbal labels aids children in recalling a group of items and in categorizing ...

Explain how the use of verbal labels aids children in recalling a group of items and in categorizing them.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following statements regarding violence in schools is not true?
 
  a. Problems involving poverty, racial segregation, and illegal drug activity very likely spill over from the neighborhood and into the school in suburban communities.
  b. School violence in urban communities typically involves specific grievances held by the perpetrators against particular individuals.
  c. In suburban schools, the violence seems more like the kind of rampage shootings by adults that occur in workplaces or in other public locations.
  d. In rural schools, shootings typically resemble those in suburban communities more than those in urban communities.

Question 3

In what way is use of a riddle an example of a child's metalinguistic awareness?
 
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Question 4

School shootings have resulted in deaths in the United States. These incidents
 
  a. are fairly frequent.
  b. receive little media attention.
  c. contribute to considerable public alarm.
  d. have also occurred in Western Europe and other nations.

Question 5

Define pragmatics. What role do parents play in the acquisition of pragmatics?
 
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Question 6

All but which of the following are true statements regarding youth violence?
 
  a. Youth violence resulting in deaths increased substantially in the 1980s in disadvantaged urban schools.
  b. Youth violence in the late 1980s increased in frequency in suburban and rural communities.
  c. Youth violence in the late 1990s increased amongst middle-class Caucasians.
  d. All of these are true statements regarding youth violence.