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71. Two-year-old Allie learning to talk. Her sentences very short and : 1201986
71. Two-year-old Allie is learning to talk. Her sentences are very short and to the point. For example, she says “Me do” when she wants to do something herself. Allie is
A. speaking in babblings.
B. at the one-word stage.
C. using telegraphic sentences.
D. beyond the critical period.
72. Marla is one year old. She probably
A. knows general names rather than simple object categories.
B. is at the babbling stage.
C. uses language without gestures.
D. understands more words than she can say.
73. Genie was unable to learn language in her teens after being isolated without language until that time. Genie’s difficulty is evidence for a
A. critical period in language acquisition.
B. language acquisition device.
C. social convention.
D. speech spectrograph.
74. Theresa began studying Japanese when she was in the eighth grade. After many years of study, however, she still speaks Japanese with an accent and lacks perfect fluency. The reason is probably that
A. she had already passed the critical period of language development when she began studying Japanese.
B. she was not genetically “prewired” for Japanese.
C. no one can learn to speak a language perfectly unless his or her parents speak it.
D. continuing to speak English while she was studying Japanese blocked her acquisition of Japanese.
75. When asked why she was crying, Susie said, “Because I losted my dolly.” Susie’s use of the word “losted” to convey the past tense of the verb “to lose” demonstrates that language acquisition might be
A. the product of imitation.
B. influenced mainly by operant conditioning.
C. partly innate and automatic.
D. learned mainly through classical conditioning.
76. A psycholinguist who does not believe human language is innate would have the most trouble with theories of language development that postulate
A. the role of modeling..
B. the existence of universal grammar.
C. the importance of conditioning.
D. that language can be acquired by some primates.
77. Wilhelm is being raised in a bilingual environment, learning to speak both German and French before the end of the critical period. Assuming that Wilhelm has equally mastered both languages, what would you most likely discover when Wilhelm is in junior high?
A. He is having difficulty switching from German to French and from French to German.
B. He is superior to his classmates in cognitive flexibility and creativity.
C. He is no different from his classmates in cognitive flexibility and creativity.
D. He has more trouble learning arithmetic than his classmates.
78. Which of the following statements about bilingualism is false?
A. A bilingual environment before the end of the critical period seems to enhance performance in both languages.
B. Children with roughly equal mastery of two languages are superior to others in many cognitive skills.
C. Research has shown that non–English-speaking children perform better with a rapid immersion in an English-only program.
D. Children raised in a bilingual environment may initially show impaired language development.
79. According to the textbook, most psychologists agree that the definition of intelligence includes all of the following except the ability to
A. acquire knowledge.
B. think abstractly and problem-solve.
C. perform well on standardized tests of intelligence.
D. reason adaptively in different environments.
80. Alfred Binet was primarily interested in
A. developing a theory of intelligence.
B. developing an intelligence test for American immigrants.
C. proving that intelligence is inherited.
D. developing a screening device for children in need of special instruction.
