Three-Year-Old Carrie, Points to a Truck and Proudly Announces That

question 269

Multiple Choice

Three-year-old Carrie, points to a truck and proudly announces that it is a car. Her mother corrects her by saying, "No Carrie, that is a truck." This is an example of

• A) reinforcement learning action.
• B) a simple mistake by a child, with little connection to language development.
• C) negativestances of the concept car
• D) anappropriate correction of language.

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