A Mother Hands Little Marc His Familiar Bowl,which Contains a Red

question 75

Multiple Choice

A mother hands little Marc his familiar bowl,which contains a red fruit he has never seen before.She says,"Look,here are some strawberries!" When he sees this same fruit at dinnertime,he points and says a word something like "strawberries." Marc is demonstrating

• A)overextension.
• B)fast mapping.
• C)an appreciation of syntax.
• D)an appreciation of pragmatics.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A system of learning where behavior modification is achieved through incentivization or disciplinary measures.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process first described by Ivan Pavlov, in which an organism comes to associate two stimuli, leading to a change in behavior.

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others and the outcomes of those behaviors, without direct personal experience.

Intermittent Reinforcement

A conditioning schedule in which a behavior is reinforced only some of the time, leading to more resistant and lasting behavioral changes.