Irish American children typically enact family and everyday themes in their social pretend play.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 2According to linguistic theory, as children are exposed to a specific language, a process called ________ takes place, whereby switches for the grammatical rules for that language are set.
a. overregularization c. recasting
b. parameter setting d. semantic bootstrapping
Question 3Children who engage in pretend play are advanced in theory-of-mind tasks.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 4Which of the following is a characteristic of Chomsky's linguistic perspective on language acquisition?
a. The rare-event learning mechanism c. Partial representative parameters
b. Inner speech d. Universal grammar
Question 5Cora is very shy and usually does not initiate play or discussion with her peers. Her teachers and parents are concerned about Cora's social competence and have begun to discuss Cora's difficulties with her. They are instructing Cora in how to initiate conversations with her peers. Cora's teachers and parents are using a training technique called
a. coaching. c. reinforcement.
b. modeling. d. social learning.
Question 6Critics of the critical-period hypothesis of language acquisition believe that rare cases, such as Genie, are not good evidence for the biological nature of language learning because
a. Genie was deaf.
b. Genie may have suffered serious cognitive, physiological, and psychological deficits due to the lack of human contact she encountered in her life.
c. Genie was exposed to a number of teratogens prenatally.
d. Genie willingly isolated herself from human contact and may not have performed well on language learning tasks due to her discomfort with human interaction.
Question 7Paolo was new to his school and did not initiate much contact with any of his classmates. To help Paolo develop his social skills, Mr. Watts decided to encourage Paolo for his successive attempts to get involved with his classmates. When Paolo started to look interested in groups of children at play, Mr. Watts would tell him that was a step in the right direction; when Paolo tried to share his toys with another child, Mr. Watts told him he was doing very well; and when Paolo engaged himself in a group of children by telling a joke, Mr. Watts told him that he was becoming a regular pro.. Mr. Watts made use of the _________ training strategy.
a. coaching c. modeling
b. reinforcement d. social learning
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