Language

Question 1

What is Language?

Answer 1

A system of communication using sounds and symbols

Question 2

At what age do children start babbling/imitating language?
A- 4-6 months
B- 6-10 months
C- 8-12 months
D- 10-12 months

Answer 2

Answer: C (8-12 months)

Question 3

What is a Lexicon?
A- The vocabulary of a person (a mental dictionary)
B- The language a person speaks
C- The sounds letters make in a sequence to make the sound of a word

Answer 3

Answer: A (The vocabulary of a person (mental dictionary))

Question 4

B.F Skinner (1957, Verbal Behavior) claimed that language was strictly learned through what?

Answer 4

Reinforcement