Question 1
Dramatic growth in receptive vocabulary in middle childhood is substantially due to __________.
◦ learning entirely new words at an astonishing pace
◦ learning alternate meanings of base words based on adding prefixes or suffixes
◦ teaching of new vocabulary words by parents
◦ dramatic growth in grammatical knowledge
Question 2
Durston and colleagues (2002, 2006) performed experiments in which children had to press a button ("Go") if they saw certain stimuli and avoid pressing the button ("No-go") if they saw another stimulus. Compared to adults, children's brains __________.
◦ worked harder to ignore the non-target stimuli
◦ could not understand what the non-target stimuli were
◦ did not have to work as hard to ignore the non-target stimuli
◦ focused exclusively on the non-target stimuli