Psychology Cognitive Development & Language

Which of the following is an example of how people in conversation tend to exhibit similar accents and rates of speech, often associated with people's social identity?

While Adam is a native English American speaker he uses an Australian accent when he speaks to his dad who is from Australia

Ulrike is 7 years old and suffers from a serious psychological disorder. One theory of where her disorder comes from is the notion that she lacks a theory of mind; that is, she does not know what other people are thinking or feeling. With which disorder as Ulrike most likely been diagnosed?

autism

If Shantal was to ask people to articulate the rules of grammar of their language, most would not be able to do so. Yet, if she asked the same people to decide whether a sentence is or is not grammatically acceptable in that language, most would be able to do so easily. What does this apparent contradiction suggest about language and cognition?

grammer is an example of implicit knowledge

According to Paiget, the developmental processes that explain children's cognitive development are measured by:

how children reason, with fundamental changed tin thinking occurring in each stage

Evidence that language-learning ability is partly innate comes from all of these EXCEPT:

infants can distinguish individual words when they receive help

Renée Baillargeon showed 3-moth-olds a possible event (a solid screen obscuring a solid object) and an impossible event (a solid screen passing through a solid object). In the experiment, Baillargeon's infants looked:

longer at the impossible than at the possible event

Which of the following is the most important aspect of a child's ability to develop depth perception (demonstrated by the face that the absence of this factor can lead to depth perception problems later in life)?

receiving patterned light

Anna is telling Joy all about Maya's recent engagement. Because they share ______________, Anna assumes that Joy knows a little about Maya and George and doesn't need to tell about who they are. If Anna were speaking to someone else, she may need to include more details.

common ground

The word tune would be an example of a:

morpheme

Kim and Kristi love to play with the family cat. Sometimes the cat hides behind a chair out of their view. Kim begins to attend to something else as if they cat no longer exists, but Kristi, who is older, knows to look behind the chair to find the cat. Kristi has mastered the concept Piaget called:

object permanence