AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Babies communicate using sounds and gestures. In the first year of life, babies go from babbling to playing with sounds, copying sounds and putting sounds together. First words might start at around 12 months.

Detailed explanation-2: -6 months: By 6 months, babies begin to babble and coo and this is the first sign that the baby is learning a language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Receptive language is the “input” of language, the ability to understand and comprehend spoken language that you hear or read. For example, a child’s ability to listen and follow directions (e.g. “put on your coat”) relies on the child’s receptive language skills.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following best describes infants’ learning of the sounds of their languages? Infants come into the world being able to perceive most possible speech sounds, and gradually lose the ability to distinguish sounds that do not occur in their native language.

Detailed explanation-5: -The view that language learning involves an interaction between environmental influences and an inborn tendency to acquire language. The emphasis is on the inborn tendency. Noam Chomsky labeled this innate tendency is called a language acquisition device (LAD) It primes the nervous system to learn grammar.