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When Children Encounter a New Word, They Usually Assume That

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When children encounter a new word, they usually assume that it refers to the entire object rather than to part of the object. This is called the:

A) mutual exclusivity bias
B) sensorimotor bias
C) whole object bias
D) taxonomic bias

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