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Sort the following sentences concerning advice to give to families concerning their toddler’s language development. Sort into would recommend (WR) or not recommend (NR). For each item, write the item number, and the category you would place that item in (either WR or NR).

Vygotsky theorized that children were born with a language acquisition device (LAD) built-in and learn from a mother tongue.

What type of design identifies functional relations by replicating an effect within an individual, across individuals, or across laboratories or clinics?  

Which of these characteristics of the scientific method refer to the ability to specify behavior with enough precision that it can be counted?

Behavior is said to be “determined” because it is a result of:  

Electronic ID Tags and Permanent Brucellosis Metal ID tags are both acceptable permanent forms of permanent ID in cattle. 

Manipulating an independent variable along several quantitatively levels, rather than turning the IV on and off, is referred to as a/an _______________ manipulation.  

To conduct direct observations of behavior, ____________ are required to specify the topography of the target behavior and reliably identify instances from non-instances of the behavior. 

Which of these is NOT a problem with using self-reports to study behavior? 

_______________ experimental designs are used in ways they do NOT rely on inferential statistics to evaluate whether an independent variable influenced the dependent variable.