Author Question: Imagine that you are volunteering in a child-care center, and you are currently taking care of ... (Read 134 times)

haleyc112 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Imagine that you are volunteering in a child-care center, and you are currently taking care of infants who are less than one year of age. Which of the following language skills would you expect to be the first one to develop?

a. The infants can recognize the sound of their own name.
b. The infants look longer at their mother when hearing the word Mommy; they look longer at their father when hearing the word Daddy.
c. The infants have developed some sophisticated concepts, for example, realizing that an unfamiliar animal is likely to drink water.
d. The infants appreciate that an angry voice goes with an angry facial expression.

Question 2

The research on infants' speech perception suggests that

a. infants can appreciate phoneme similarities shortly after birth, but they cannot appreciate phoneme differences until they are almost 12 months old.
b. infants have such limited skills that psychologists cannot design appropriate research on speech perception in infants younger than 6 months of age.
c. infants can perceive the differences between a variety of similar phonemes; this ability is present either at birth or during the first weeks of life.
d. the perception of phonemes does not change after the age of 6 months.