Cognitive Psychology
Who proposed the idea of Speech Zones as stages children go through while acquiring language?
Noam Chomsky
Jean Piaget
B.F.Skinner
Lev Vygotsky
Which theory would most likely support the idea that a child learns words for objects first because they are the most tangible?
Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory
B.F.Skinner's operant conditioning theory
Noam Chomsky’s nativist theory
Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory
A researcher studying cross-cultural differences in language acquisition observes that certain sounds are more accurately produced earlier by infants in some cultures than others; what concept does this best illustrate?
Syntax
Phonemic awareness influenced by linguistic environment
Morphology
Phonetics
Which of the following intervention strategies would be most effective for a child struggling with language acquisition due to a hearing impairment?
Administering anti-depressant medication.
Encouraging increased social interactions only.
Employing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Implementing a sign language program and speech therapy.
"Get cookie," best exemplifies
telegraphic speech
holophrases
mental set
babbling
Which perspective in psychology is most likely to emphasize the role of inherited traits and biological processes in language acquisition?
Cognitive perspective
Behavioral perspective
Biological perspective
Sociocultural perspective
In terms of language acquisition, Noam Chomsky argued for which innate feature in humans?
The role social interactions play in learning languages
The ability to mimic sounds from environment
The influence of parents' speech patterns
A built-in predisposition to learn grammar rules

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Considering Benjamin Whorf's linguistic relativity hypothesis, which situation illustrates its potential influence on cognition?
Children using telegraphic speech during early language development displaying difficulty understanding abstract concepts unrelated to their immediate context.
Multilingual individuals switching between languages showing no significant change in their personality traits or decision-making processes across cultures.
A society with numerous words for snow demonstrating more complex perception and categorization of snowy conditions compared to societies with fewer terms for snow.
Communities developing pidgin languages incorporating simplified grammar from several different native tongues failing to develop into fully complex languages over time.
Question #4: What criticism might be made about Jean Piaget's pre-linguistic stage within his theory on cognitive development?
Some babies demonstrate understanding before they have all their sensory-motor skills developed.
The pre-linguistic stage is too brief compared with other stages in his theory.
Piaget overemphasizes the importance of object permanence in this stage.
Piaget's theory doesn't account for changes in vocalization during this period.
The vocal sounds not included in one's native language first begin to disappear from a child's vocalizations toward the end of the _____ stage of language development.
grammar stage
babbling stage
two-word stage
one-word stage