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bobbysung

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Some researchers have argued that our autobiographical memories depend on language because:
 
  A. we know that all cognition requires language.
  B. most people cannot remember anything about their childhood from before they had enough language skills to tell a basic story.
  C. pre-linguistic infants have been shown to be incapable of remembering events.
  D. most people use language to tell other people about themselves.

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a piece of evidence supporting the idea that our ability to reason numerically depends on the use of specific number words?
 
  A. the fact that bilingual speakers are better able to remember numerical facts if they are tested in the same language they were trained in
  B. the fact that speakers of languages without exact number words have difficulties discriminating between large exact quantities
  C. the fact that adults can make better estimations of approximate quantities than pre-linguistic infants can
  D. the fact that pre-linguistic infants can only keep track of up to 4 objects



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C





 

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