6a)Researchers designed an experiment in which 8-month-old infants were placed in a highchair with their feet attached to a special foot pedal. When infants moved their feet, the pedal lit up a screen in front of them and music played. A few weeks later these same infants were placed in the same chair and immediately started moving their feet. These infants demonstrated:  Select one: i. Statistical learning  ii. Instrumental conditioning iii. Classical conditioning  iv. Observational learning

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6a)Researchers designed an experiment in which 8-month-old infants were placed in a highchair with their feet attached to a special foot pedal. When infants moved their feet, the pedal lit up a screen in front of them and music played. A few weeks later these same infants were placed in the same chair and immediately started moving their feet. These infants demonstrated: 

Select one:

i.

Statistical learning 

ii.

Instrumental conditioning

iii.

Classical conditioning 

iv.

Observational learning

6b)Samira produced the sentence: “Today I will bake a cake.” The word “cake” is an example of:

Select one:

i.

Pragmatics

ii.

A morpheme

iii.

Syntax

iv.

A phoneme

6c)Fay participates in an experiment in which she hears many speech contrasts, including “pa” vs “ba” (an English contrast) and “da” vs “dha” (a Hindi contrast). When she is 6 months old, she discriminates both contrasts. When she is 12 months old, she discriminates “pa” vs “ba” but no longer discriminates “da” vs “dha.” This example demonstrates ____________. 

Select one:

i.

Perceptual narrowing

ii.

Overgeneralization

iii.

Word segmentation 

iv.

Syntactic bootstrapping

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