According to the rules that young children use to learn the meanings of new words, when Ravisha points to a picture of a boy in a blue shirt and says "boy" her 13-month-old son will assume that the word "boy" refers to
A) the boy.
B) the boy's shirt.
C) the color blue.
D) the book that Ravisha is reading.

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According to the rules of associative learning, the word "boy" will be associated with the image of the boy in the blue shirt that Ravisha is pointing to. The child will assume that the word refers to the person depicted in the picture (i.e., the boy) rather than the shirt he is wearing or the color of the shirt. The book that Ravisha is reading is not relevant to the child's learning of the meaning of the word "boy."

According to the Rules That Young Children Use to Learn