Which theory of language development is supported by the observation that many children can use contextual cues to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words?

A) Social pragmatics account
B) Imitation account
C) Nativist account
D) General cognitive processing account

Answer: A

Psychology

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a. Tim: "Illusory correlations arise when people focus their attention on only one set of characteristics, and they do not consider the other sets of characteristics" b. Joanne: "Illusory correlations are based on the inappropriate use of confidence intervals." c. Sophie: "Illusory correlations resemble the conjunction fallacy, in which we believe that two psychological characteristics or categories are related to each other." d. Ingo: "Actually, a recent meta-analysis showed thatâ€"ironicallyâ€"illusory correlations are illusory."

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When considering why people do what they do, psychoanalytic approaches are to behaviorist approaches as:

a. punishments are to defense mechanisms. b. internal programming is to avoiding conflict. c. resolving unconscious conflicts is to external programming. d. external programming is to resolving unconscious conflicts.

Psychology