Imagine That a Young Child Is Presented with a Novel

Multiple Choice

Imagine that a young child is presented with a novel word, "teddy," when her uncle says, "What a sweet teddy." In front of the child are two objects, a teddy bear-"bear" is a word the child already knows-and a can opener, an object the child has never seen before. The child makes the assumption that the novel word refers to the can opener through an expectation referred to as

A) the mutual exclusivity assumption.
B) fast mapping.
C) the whole-object assumption.
D) cross-situational word learning.