Author Question: Erica is a two-year-old girl. She sees an owl for the first time and asks her mother what it is, and ... (Read 291 times)

Garrulous · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Erica is a two-year-old girl. She sees an owl for the first time and asks her mother what it is, and her mother replies that it is an owl. Now, every time Erica sees a bird she calls it an ool. This process is called _____.

A) deferred imitation
B) overextension
C) habituation
D) canalization

Question 2

Jim tells his son, Wear your shoes when you go outside to play. Jim's son cannot produce a sentence like this, but he completely understands his dad and goes to put his shoes on before going outside to play. The fact that Jim's son understands this statement suggests that the words in the sentence fall into his _____.

A) receptive vocabulary
B) expressive vocabulary
C) advanced vocabulary
D) active vocabulary