The Common Mistakes Children Make as They Try to Learn

question 129

Multiple Choice

The common mistakes children make as they try to learn language indicate that the children

• A) are trying to memorize the sentences they hear, word for word.
• B) cannot distinguish many important sounds from one another.
• C) are learning grammatical rules and over-applying them.
• D) can say more words than they understand.

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Definitions:

Individual Preferences

The personal likes or dislikes of an individual, which influence their decisions and behavior.

Social Preferences

Social Preferences indicate how individuals’ decision-making is influenced by the welfare of others, beyond self-interest.

Transitivity

In decision theory, the principle that if option A is preferred over B, and B is preferred over C, then A should be preferred over C.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A theory indicating it is impossible to formulate a social preference ordering that satisfies all of a specific set of reasonable criteria when voters have three or more options.