Multiple-Choice Help

[hamnaghazal]

Which of the following is not true regarding language acquisition?

 

a.Non-human primates can use language as well as children.

b.Children learn syntax through both modelling and biological preparedness.

c.Balanced bilinguals show greater cognitive flexibility than those who speak one language.
d.Humans must acquire language during a critical period to acquire complex features of their language.

 

 

 

 

Based on research with non-human primates, many researchers believed that there really was not much that is unique about humans’ language skills. One challenge to this line of thinking is that

 

a.non-human primates never learned to combine words in systematic order.

b.non-human primates were able to combine gestures into more and more complex and elaborate messages

c.children use languages spontaneously and creatively, while non-human primates lack this tendency.

d.non-human primates could generate complex messages once they had learned the basic symbols.

 

 

A psychologist strongly believes that the information-processing model of intelligence is correct and sufficient to explain human mental ability. In experiments in her laboratory, she focuses on all except

 

a.speed of access to long-term memory.

b.focusing attention.

c. how we adapt to existing environments or select new ones

d. capacity of working memory.

Edited September 21, 2016 by hamnaghazal

[Maine farmer]

This is only a series of guesses, but d, c, c

[sanctus]

Question 1, don't know which one is wrong but I do believe it is not d. I remember the story of the girl locked up and only yelled or barked at (here is the link to the story, but be warned you might not want to read it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)), she never really learned to speak.