Noam Chomsky's term for an innate set of mental structures that aid children in language learning is:

a. plasticity
b. receptive language
c. overextension
d. language acquisition device

d

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(a) behavioristic (b) humanistic (c) Freudian (d) statistical

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Altruism, according to evolutionary perspectives, is most directly caused by

A) reasoning. B) the emotion of empathy. C) experience. D) the emotion of happiness.

Psychology