Ebony's Parents Are Very Articulate, Provide an Environment That Is

question 8

Multiple Choice

Ebony's parents are very articulate, provide an environment that is rich in verbal stimuli, and spend a great deal of time talking with Ebony. Her parents state that when Ebony was only four months old, she started to speak in "sentences" that were three or four words long. Developmentalists would be most likely to

• A)accept this as true if he or she supports the nativist view.
• B)accept this as true if he or she supports the learning view.
• C)reject this as false, regardless of his or her viewpoint.
• D)accept this as true if he or she accepts the interactionist view.

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