What is overregularization and how does it apply to language?
What will be an ideal response?
This is where children will apply grammatical rules even to words that are exceptions to the rule. For example, a child might say "cheeses" as the plural of "cheese."
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Studies exploring the correlations between IQ scores of individuals on the basis of their degree of genetic relationship have found that
a. identical twins reared together show lower correlations than identical twins reared apart. b. identical twins reared apart show higher correlations than fraternal twins reared together. c. siblings reared together show lower correlations than siblings reared apart. d. siblings reared apart show higher correlations than fraternal twins reared apart.
According to the article Boll ldface Letters about children's attributions for their own behavior, children who will not try new things because they expect to fail are showing signs of:
(a) abusive punishment at home (b) low intellectual ability (c) shyness, which probably has a genetic component (d) learned helplessness