Three-Year-Old Carrie Points to a Truck and Proudly Announces That

question 34

Multiple Choice

Three-year-old Carrie points to a truck and proudly announces that it is a car. Her mother corrects her by saying, "No, Carrie, that is a truck." This is an example of

• A) reinforcement learning in action.
• B) a simple mistake by a child, with little connection to language development.
• C) negative instances of the concept car.
• D) an inappropriate correction of language.

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