Question

Four-year-old Faisal and his mother were visiting Faisal's older sister's kindergarten classroom. Faisal pointed at his sister's teacher and asked his mother, "What's that mom's name?" Faisal's apparent assumption that all women are mothers is evidence of his use of _____.

Answer 1

Answer: fast mapping

Explanation:

Fast mapping is the idea that children can learn a word based on a single contact with the word. They are 'fast' at picking the word up and figuring out how to use it. In fact, psychologists Susan Carey and Elsa Bartlett, who pioneered research on fast mapping , demonstrated that children can learn a word and its meaning based on a single exposure to the word. It's like they hear it once and store it somewhere forever.

Fasai after knowing his mother as mom has assumed every woman is a mom is known as fast mapping . He understands that the word mom should be associate with a woman