What Piece of Evidence Supports the Idea That Imitation Is

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Multiple Choice

What piece of evidence supports the idea that imitation is innate by emphasizing the importance of social learning in cognitive growth?

• A) Children learn language best from face-to-face interactions rather than from passively listening to it.
• B) Children are born with a sense of self and need to learn to deceive.
• C) Children learn how to act a certain way by watching how adults act in different situations.
• D) Children are instinctively social because this was adaptive to our ancestors.

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Definitions:

Dialects

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Linguistic Nationalism

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Selective Borrowing

The process by which cultures adopt specific elements of another culture while rejecting others, often seen in social, technological, or linguistic exchanges.

Accelerated Second Language Acquisition

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