Superstitious Conditioning Refers To

question 26

Multiple Choice

Superstitious conditioning refers to:

• A)lay people's erroneous assumptions about luck and fate
• B)bits of folk wisdom that people are rewarded for expressing
• C)the false conditioning of random behaviors
• D)a learned aversion toward situations people don't understand

Identify the barriers to language acquisition in non-human animals.

Understand nativist perspectives on language development, including the concept of innate language abilities.

Distinguish between different theories of language acquisition and development.

Understand different problem-solving strategies such as trial and error, forming subgoals, working backward, and searching for analogies.

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Definitions:

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