One Thing That Would NOT Be Helpful for Language Development

question 11

Multiple Choice

One thing that would NOT be helpful for language development in an infant classroom is

• A) adults who speak face to face with babies.
• B) a constant playing of the radio.
• C) adults who speak the infants' home language.
• D) soft music playing at naptime.

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Definitions:

Self-Handicapping Tendencies

Behaviors or attitudes people adopt to create excuses for themselves, so they can avoid self-blame in case of failure.

Symbolic Interactionism

The perspective that people use their understanding of how others view them as the primary basis for knowing and evaluating themselves.

Social Schema Perspective

A framework for understanding how individuals categorize and interpret social information based on cognitive structures.

Social Role Theory

The theory that gender differences in behavior, personality, and self-definition arise because of a long history of role distribution between the sexes and error-prone assumptions that those roles are essential to men and women’s nature.