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About This Drill
AP Psychology: Social-Emotional Development and Language — Drill 15 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 3: Development and Learning. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
AP Psychology practice questions on social-emotional development and language acquisition, covering babbling, attachment in the Strange Situation, overgeneralization, the language acquisition device debate, and Erikson's identity stage for AP exam prep.
Questions in This Drill
- At about 6 months old, Nicholas spends long stretches of time making repetitive sounds like "ba-ba-ba" and "ma-ma-ma," seemingly for his own enjoyment, without yet using these sounds to refer to anything. This vocal behavior is best described as:
- In the Strange Situation, a toddler cries intensely when her mother leaves the room and then goes to her mother for comfort when she returns and is quickly soothed. Ainsworth would classify this pattern as:
- A 3-year-old named Hugo says "I goed to the park yesterday." His older sister laughs and says he should have said "went." Hugo's mistake most directly illustrates:
- A researcher argues that human infants are born with an innate language acquisition device (LAD), citing the fact that children across cultures reach language milestones in roughly the same sequence and at roughly the same ages despite very different input. A critic challenges this interpretation. Which of the following would be the strongest evidence against the pure nativist view that the critic could offer?
- A researcher administers an Erikson-inspired questionnaire to adults at four different ages and reports the percentage of respondents who score high on "resolved a coherent sense of identity":
• Age 18: 22%
• Age 25: 54%
• Age 40: 78%
• Age 65: 81%
A student draws four conclusions from the table. Which is the most defensible interpretation of these data?