Two-Year-Old Max Sees a Rabbit and Calls It a "Bunny

question 103

Multiple Choice

Two-year-old Max sees a rabbit and calls it a "bunny." He then sees a large white hamster and calls it a "bunny," too. In this scenario, the application of a word to objects that are inappropriate for the word's meaning is referred to as

• A) deferred imitation.
• B) underextension.
• C) infantile amnesia.
• D) overextension.

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