Please choose to answer only one of the 2 following questions.

Option 1: In your opinion and based on scientific, peer-reviewed published evidence, does children’s motor development interact with/affect children’s cognitive and/or perceptual development?

Option 2: In your opinion and based on scientific, peer-reviewed published evidence, what features, properties, and/or experiences in the world and with people allow for typically-developing infants and young children (0-5 years) to learn language?

For more details, including the format you should use and the rubric, please read the attached.

You may use any empirical, rigorous scientific research as support however, do not use anecdotal evidence, or unpublished work.  In your answer, please provide an opening statement, three arguments in support of your opening  (opinion), three pieces of empirical research (i.e., studies) as support for your arguments, and a closing . You should use 3 journal articles that report original data/studies as evidence. If you do not know what this means or what kinds of papers to look for then you must ask me. Do not use textbooks, websites, chapters of edited books, review papers, or meta-analyses as evidence. Please be sure to provide references for your empirical support (APA format; with a reference list and paper citations in text). Your paper must adhere to a 5-paragraph format that is detailed in the writing assignment instruction link below. You are not allowed to use automated writing tools or software such as ChatGPT for this assignment. Your paper will be run through Turnitin and flag issues with originality and automated software use. 

I am including a few here below for links), particularly ones that are in support of a relation between perceptual and/or motor and cognitive development. I am also including a few on how children learn words. You may only use 1 article from this subset.

You must identify two other articles on your own. Three in total.