The observation that infants display considerable intelligence before they learn to speak offers little support to
a. the linguistic-relativity hypothesis.
b. Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
c. the learning theory of language development.
d. psycholinguistic theory.
A
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a) cognitive restructuring. b) psychoanalysis. c) flooding. d) imagery.
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