What Explains Why Infants and Children More Easily Make Sense

question 61

Multiple Choice

What explains why infants and children more easily make sense of faces and sounds than other things, such as lists of words?

• A)Infants and children learn the easiest things first, and then progress to harder tasks.
• B)Specific parts of the brain are limited to processing a narrow range of information.
• C)The brain and learning mechanisms can perform many tasks at once.
• D)There are no constraints on learning to make sense of faces and language.

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Definitions:

Per-Unit Costs

The average cost for each individual unit of product produced, taking into account all fixed and variable expenses.

Marginal Costs

The incremental cost involved in producing one more unit of a product or service.

Learning Curve

The concept that people improve efficiency and decrease cost over time as they gain experience in a particular task or operation.

Marginal Productivity

The additional output that is produced by using one more unit of a particular input while keeping other inputs constant.