Which Example Is Characteristic of Infant-Directed Speech

question 129

Multiple Choice

Which example is characteristic of infant-directed speech?

• A) longer words and longer sentences
• B) nonsense sounds mimicking the baby's sounds
• C) higher and more varied pitch
• D) few repetitions and short pauses

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Definitions:

Personality

The reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish one person from another.

Learning

(1) According to behaviorists, a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience; (2) according to cognitive theorists, the process by which organisms make relatively permanent changes in the way they represent the environment because of experience.

Motivation

The state in which an organism experiences an inducement or incentive to do something.

Emotion

A state of feeling that has cognitive, physiological, and behavioral components.