Three-Year-Old Carrie Points to a Truck and Proudly Announces That

Multiple Choice

Three-year-old Carrie points to a truck and proudly announces that it is a car. Her mother corrects her by saying, "No, Carrie, that is a truck." This is an example of

A) reinforcement learning in action.
B) a simple mistake by a child, with little connection to language development.
C) negative instances of the concept car.
D) an inappropriate correction of language.