Which of the Following Observations Regarding Behaviorism's Language Theory Is

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following observations regarding behaviorism's language theory is incorrect?

• A) People speak as they do because they have been reinforced for doing so.
• B) Throughout the learning process,behaviorists assumed that children were relatively active.
• C) Parents and other speakers were given credit for shaping their younger charges' utterances into intelligible words.
• D) Behaviorism cannot explain how children often produce sentences they have never heard before.

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