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You will now read a short passage and listen to a lecture on the same topic. You
You will now read a short passage and listen to a lecture on the same topic. You
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2025-02-06
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You will now read a short passage and listen to a lecture on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about them. After you hear the question, give yourself 30 seconds to prepare your response. Then record yourself speaking for 60 seconds.
Critical Period
It is generally believed that for many organisms, there is a specific time period, a so-called "window of opportunity," during which the organism must receive crucial input from its environment in order for normal development to occur. This period is called the critical period. If the needed environmental input is not received during this period, the normal development of certain physical attributes or behaviors may never occur. In other words, if the organism is not provided with the needed stimulus or influence during the critical period, it may permanently lose the capacity to ever obtain a particular physical attribute or behavior.
Listen to Track 81.
Using the examples of kittens and geese, explain the idea of a critical period.
Narrator
Now listen to part of a lecture in a psychology class.
Professor
Let’s start with a physical attribute, say, uh, in kittens. Adult cats have extremely good vision, especially at night. But in order for a kitten’s eyesight to develop normally, the kitten must be exposed to light during the first four months of its life. Without that, its eyesight will not develop correctly, it will never be able to see as well as it should. Even if the kitten is exposed to plenty of light after those four months of darkness, it won’t matter, its vision will never develop normally.
As far as behavior’s concerned, well, have you ever seen how little baby geese line up and then, single-file, they follow their parent goose around? Well, what would happen if they didn’t see a parent goose within the first two days of their lives?
Actually, for normal behavior to develop, they must see what to follow within these first two days. What happens is, whatever large moving object they first see during those two days, they’ll adopt that object as their parent... forever. It can never be changed. For example, suppose after the baby geese were hatched, the only other animal around was, I don’t know, say a dog. OK? So the baby geese see a dog, but no other geese. Even though the dog is a totally different species, the geese will adopt it as their parent—they’ll follow it around. And even if the parent geese reappear later, it won’t matter to the babies—they’ll follow the dog. After two days the behavior is fixed and they’ll never exhibit the normal behavior of following their real parent—a goose.
Narrator
Using the examples of kittens and geese, explain the idea of a critical period.
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答案
To respond to this particular question you should first explain the idea of a critical period as it was presented in the reading. The critical period is a specific time period for many organisms. Organisms must receive external or environmental input during this critical period in order to develop normally. Do not spend too much time summarizing all of the content of the reading.
You should then use the examples given by the professor to explain critical periods. In the first example, the professor discusses a critical period that affects a physical attribute. Vision in kittens will not develop normally if they are not exposed to light within the first four months of life. In the second example, the professor discusses a critical period affecting a behavior. Baby geese will adopt whatever large moving object they first see within the first two days of their lives as their parent. They will follow this "parent" even if it’s a different species. That behavior cannot be changed even if a real goose reappears.
You do not need to repeat all of the details from the reading and the lecture, but instead integrate points from both to answer the question completely. For this question, you need to give yourself enough time to talk about both examples.
Your response should be intelligible, should demonstrate effective use of grammar and vocabulary, and should be well developed and coherent.
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