GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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Various sounds
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Plastic symbols of various shapes and colors
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Sign language
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Also in the early 1970’s, a chimpanzee named Washoe was taught to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) by Beatrix and Allen Gardner at the University of Nevada in Reno. She was immersed in an environment where she learned to use ASL in daily interactions with her human companions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Koko learned sign language at a pace that paralleled language acquisition by human children. Her most rapid gains in new vocabulary occurred between years 2.5 and 4.5, as compared with human children who spike between 2 and 4 years.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are numerous stories associated with Washoe and Koko and there is much to gain from them. The main focus of these studies were that apes could not only learn language but create new words, even lie and express other emotions independently.
Detailed explanation-4: -Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition.
Detailed explanation-5: -Allen Gardner, 91, Dies; Taught Sign Language to a Chimp Named Washoe. He and his wife and collaborator made headlines with their finding that they could communicate with a young ape using the language of the deaf.