The Notion of Critical Periods

question 123

Multiple Choice

The notion of critical periods:

• A) is now viewed as too rigid to explain aspects of human development
• B) has been generally discarded in the analysis of all animal behaviour
• C) is useful in explaining biological but not cognitive development
• D) has been documented for human language acquisition

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