How does language develop during the middle childhood period?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Language development is characterized by improvements in vocabulary
- Syntax (the rules that indicate how words and phrases can be combined to form sentences)
- Pragmatics (the rules governing the use of language to communicate in a given social setting)
- Growth of metalinguistic awareness (an understanding of one's own use of language)
- Use of language as a self-control device
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Experts would most likely agree that intelligence is
a. an inborn ability to perform well on standard intelligence tests. b. a mental ability to learn from experience. c. a general trait that underlies success on nearly any task. d. a multiple array of completely independent adaptive traits. e. the unconscious processing that occurs as the first step in problem solving.
The perturbation and inference models are MOST different in that?
A. The perturbation model makes precise, quantitative predictions whereas the inference model is intuitive and is based on general time knowledge. B. The inference model accounts for why participants more accurately remember 'when' with detailed, landmark events whereas the perturbation model does not. C. The perturbation model is a location theory model whereas the inference model is a distance theory model. D. The perturbation model is testable whereas the inference model is not.