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In developmental psychology, children of authoritative parents tend to be:
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In the context of developmental psychology, what is overregularization of words in children's language development?
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Imitating adult speech patterns without understanding their meaning
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Using only single words to communicate complex ideas
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Repeating the same word multiple times in a sentence
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Applying grammatical rules too broadly, such as saying 'goed' instead of 'went'
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Understand that overregularization is a phenomenon observed in children's language development where they apply learned grammatical rules too broadly.
Recognize that children learn regular past tense formation by adding '-ed' to verbs, such as 'walk' becoming 'walked'.
Identify that overregularization occurs when children apply this rule to irregular verbs, resulting in incorrect forms like 'goed' instead of 'went'.
Note that this behavior indicates that children are internalizing language rules, even if they haven't yet mastered exceptions.
Conclude that overregularization reflects an important stage in language acquisition where children experiment with and generalize grammatical patterns.
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