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QUESTION 6

1. The following is true of motherese:

   	a.	Displayed in many cultures
   	b.	Adults use it with children and even with pets
   	c.	Children use it with younger babies and dolls
   	d.	All of the above

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QUESTION 7

1. Kuhl and Meltzoff’s “pop-peep” preferential looking study showed that infants use visual information to categorize speech sounds. In their study, most infants looked longer at the visual display that matched the sound. Researchers concluded that:

   	a.	concluded that infants have a side bias
   	b.	concluded that infants can’t hear or see sounds
   	c.	concluded nothing as the study was correlational
   	d.	inferred that infants had intermodal speech perception

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QUESTION 8

1. The implication of Kuhl and Meltzoff’s “pop-peep” study is that:

   	a.	Seeing sounds helps infants to hear and differentiate them
   	b.	Infants prefer to see “peep” versus “pop”
   	c.	Infants prefer to see “pop” versus “peep”
   	d.	It is indeterminable

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QUESTION 9

1. When psychologists propose that the development of language may be over-determined, they mean that:

   	a.	multiple factors may individually or jointly contribute to development
   	b.	language is only acquired during a sensitive period of development
   	c.	language is innate
   	d.	the presence of multiple, interacting factors make development impossible for infants

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QUESTION 10

1. Some researchers consider prelinguistic interactions between infants and caregivers during feeding and playing to be babies’ first “conversations.” The still face paradigm highlights the importance of these intimate social and emotional interactions because infants become anxious and withdrawn when:

   	a.	adults’ face is a few inches from their own
   	b.	subtle contingencies of these exchanges is broken or stopped
   	c.	adult participant is a male
   	d.	adult participant is a female

Answer 1

The answer for the first four questions:

Question - 6

The following is true of motherese is

Answer:D ) All the above

Explanation:

Motherese is a word which is used to talk to a child by the older people.It is also known as child direct or care taker speech.The above options are selected because motherese is followed and displayed in many cultures which are used to show their care to a baby or pets. Adults use it with children and even with pets for showing the love and care . Children also use motherese to the younger babies as well as dolls .So all the options are true and applied in a motherese.

Question - 7

Researchers concluded that the Kuhl and Meltzoff’s “pop-peep” preferential looking study as:

Answer: D) Inferred that infants had intermodal speech perception

Explanation:

The above option is selected because the study of "pop - peep " concluded with the intermodal speech perception . The remaining options are not applied because the infants in this above study shows equal chances so there is no presence of any side bias during the study. The infants cant hear or see is not selected because the study depends on the visual as well as hearing methods .The study has correlation between the visual and sounds so the conclusion of nothing was correlated was not selected.

Question - 8

The implication of Kuhl and Meltzoff’s “pop-peep” study is that:

Answer: A) Seeing sounds helps infants to hear and differentiate them

Explanation:

The above option is selected because the infants will differentiate them by seeing and identifying the sounds. Visual information given to the child is helpful for categorize the sounds .so the remaining options are not selected.

Question - 9

When psychologists propose that the development of language may be over-determined is that:

Answer: A) multiple factors may individually or jointly contribute to development

Explanation:

The above option is selected because the language development needs multi factors and it is over determined by the psychologist. The good contribution of language development needs multi factorial involvement. The remaining options are not selected because The language not only depends on sensitive period during development , it develops in stage by stage by the improvement of factors. Language is innate is not selected because , innate is the meaning which shows the natural development but for the good language skill innate is not acceptable. The interacting factors in infants is impossible during the developmental stage so this option also not applied.