CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why is driving a car or learning to walk similar to speaking?
A
It involves the same process.
B
It requires a lot of teaching
C
It is an automatic process throughout time
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An example of a controlled process, as mentioned in the introduction, is driving a car.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of automaticity are common activities such as walking, speaking, bicycle-riding, assembly-line work, and driving a car (the last of these sometimes being termed “highway hypnosis").

Detailed explanation-3: -Automatic processing occurs when we do something unconsciously, such as walking while talking on the phone. Breathing is one of our automatic processes, which means that we don’t think about how we breathe. We just do it automatically.

Detailed explanation-4: -Automaticity refers to control of one’s internal psychological processes by external stimuli and events in one’s immediate environment, often without knowledge or awareness of such control; automatic phenomena are usually contrasted with those processes that are consciously or intentionally put into operation.

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