What Impact Did Genie's Early Isolation Have on Her Ability

question 45

Multiple Choice

What impact did Genie's early isolation have on her ability to acquire language? She never developed a(n) ________.

• A) ability to communicate
• B) ability to speak
• C) lexicon
• D) mastery of the grammatical aspects of language

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Definitions:

Overtly Physical Schemas

Cognitive structures that involve understanding the world through physical interaction and movement, often related to early childhood development.

Spatial Perspective Taking

The cognitive ability to understand and interpret the spatial relations between objects from different viewpoints.

Mental Modules

Hypothesized innate mental faculties that receive inputs from particular classes of objects and produce corresponding information about the world.

Precausal Reasoning

A type of logic in young children characterized by a misunderstanding of cause and effect relationships.