By the End of the First Year of Life, an Infant

question 158

Multiple Choice

By the end of the first year of life, an infant will generally

• A) speak in two-word "sentences."
• B) be in the cooing stage of vocalization.
• C) have a vocabulary of approximately 100 words.
• D) perceive only the phonemes of the household language.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, influencing the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Chattel

Personal property that can be moved, often used historically to refer to slaves as property.

Jamestown Census

The historical recordings of the population and demographic information of the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, established in Virginia in 1607.

Blacks

A term referring to people of African descent, often used in the context of discussing ethnic, cultural, or racial identity and issues.