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When children assume that the world is unchanging, they engage in:

Aaron, age 3, often makes errors in speech. For example, Aaron will tell their mother that their “foots” are tired when they want to be carried. While watching a cartoon, they exclaimed, “Ew! Those are mices!” And last week, they told their grandfather that they “goed to the swimming park” with the babysitter. Explain the type of speech errors that Aaron is demonstrating. Should their parents or other adults criticize their speech in order to correct it? Why or why not?

Learning Circle Preschool emphasizes individual pride and achievement while focusing on teaching young children literacy-related tasks. Learning Circle’s approach seems to MOST closely resemble a(n) _____ program.

Center-based day care is common in countries like France, Israel, and China, where:

According to Noam Chomsky’s theory, _____ is deaf infants’ particular expression of the universal language acquisition device.

Based on many decades of research, attachment appears to be:

An estimated _____ to _____ percent of children are allergic to a specific food, almost always a common, healthy one.

Social learning is to _____ as working model is to _____.

Proximal parenting tends to produce children who are:

Briefly discuss three predictors of secure attachment in infants.