Infant-Directed Speech and Parent-Child Conversation __________

question 39

Multiple Choice

Infant-directed speech and parent-child conversation __________.

• A) foster referential communication skills
• B) contribute to a decline in infantile amnesia
• C) have little impact on language development because language emerges spontaneously
• D) create a zone of proximal development in which children's language expands

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Definitions:

Prenatally

Pertaining to the period or development before birth.

Oedipal Conflict

A phase in Freudian theory where a child feels desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy and envy towards the same-sex parent.

Castration Anxiety

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to the fear felt in young boys that they could be punished by castration for Oedipal desires towards their mother and rivalry with their father.

Penis Envy

A concept in psychoanalytic theory describing a female's sense of inferiority and jealousy towards males for having a penis, as formulated by Sigmund Freud.