Three of the Following Children Are Behaving in Ways Consistent

Multiple Choice

Three of the following children are behaving in ways consistent with what information processing theorists have learned about children's early language capabilities. Which one is not behaving consistently with what researchers have learned about what children can and cannot do in the first few years of life?

A) Alec, who is 3 weeks old, seems more intrigued by classical music than by his mother's voice.
B) Bryn, who is 2 months old, seems to be more easily comforted by her father's voice than by the voice of a strange man whose voice has a similar pitch.
C) Claudia, who is 5 months old, pays more attention to her father when he talks to her using short, simple, sing-songy sentences.
D) Donald, who is 16 months old, knows what a teddy bear is but has never heard the word lion before. When his mother shows him three teddy bears and a stuffed lion and says, "Show me the lion," Donald hesitates and then points to the lion.