Todd is 2. His older brother shows him a picture of an elephant and tells Todd it is an elephant. With just this one exposure to this new word, Todd partially understands what an elephant is. This is the process of
A) fast-mapping.
B) overregularization.
C) bootstrapping.
D) metacognition.
A) fast-mapping. Children use fast-mapping to learn new words after only one or two exposures.
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