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Two-Year-Old Floss Is Going to the Dentist for the First

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Two-year-old Floss is going to the dentist for the first time. She is sitting on her dad's lap when she first sees the dentist dressed in a long white coat. Floss reacts by turning and hugging her dad while she begins sobbing. Floss's reaction is best explained as involving _____ anxiety.


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Grammatical Rules

The organized rules directing how words, phrases, and clauses are arranged within a specific natural language.

Novel Utterances

Newly created or original sentences or expressions produced by combining known words in new ways, indicative of language creativity.

2 Or 3 Years Old

A developmental stage in children characterized by rapid growth in language, motor skills, and understanding of the world around them.

Word Superiority Effect

A phenomenon where letters are more easily recognized and processed in the context of a word than as isolated letters or in non-words.

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