Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 58

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) Initially, Japanese babies can distinguish between the sounds "la" and "ra."
• B) Most Japanese adults cannot perceive the difference between the sound "la" and "ra."
• C) By 2 months of age, infants will listen to their native language and to a foreign language for similar periods of time without habituating.
• D) Children learn the phonemes of their languages by ignoring the sound distinctions that are not used in their language.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon in learning and conditioning where previously extinguished responses reappear after a pause, without further conditioning.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.

Conditioned Purring Response

A learned response where a cat purrs following specific stimuli as a result of conditioning.

Spontaneous Recovery

After a pause in exposure to the conditioned stimulus, a once suppressed conditioned response emerges again.