One criticism of the information-processing approach is that it __________
A) underestimates the individual’s contribution to his or her own development
B) ignores transformation in adulthood, concluding that no major cognitive changes occur after adolescence
C) underestimates the competencies of infants and preschoolers, focusing on older children and adolescents
D) is better at analyzing thinking into its components than at putting them back together into a comprehensive theory
Answer: B
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A) principles such as mutual exclusivity bias have no bearing on language development. B) it is governed by different cognitive strategies than those applied to nonlinguistic information. C) children reject a coalition of perceptual, social, and linguistic cues in favor of rote learning. D) they are innately biased to induce word meanings using certain principles.