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Cora is very shy and usually does not initiate play or discussion with her peers. Her teachers and parents are concerned about Cora's social competence and have begun to discuss Cora's difficulties with her. They are instructing Cora in how to initiate conversations with her peers. Cora's teachers and parents are using a training technique called
 
  a. coaching. c. reinforcement.
  b. modeling. d. social learning.

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Critics of the critical-period hypothesis of language acquisition believe that rare cases, such as Genie, are not good evidence for the biological nature of language learning because
 
  a. Genie was deaf.
  b. Genie may have suffered serious cognitive, physiological, and psychological deficits due to the lack of human contact she encountered in her life.
  c. Genie was exposed to a number of teratogens prenatally.
  d. Genie willingly isolated herself from human contact and may not have performed well on language learning tasks due to her discomfort with human interaction.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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