By 10 months of age, alan has a vocabulary of a dozen words. b. f. skinner would have attributed alan's rapid speech development mainly to his:

parents' talking to him frequently

Explanation:

Observation is the primary method of learning for children, since their brain is still not developed enough to initiate learning through readings or direct practices.

If parents are talking to their baby frequently, their baby will absorb huge amount of vocabolaries throughout the days and store them in their brain. This include the meaning, pronounciation, and intonation.

Compared to the babies who do not expeirence this, babies with this type of experience will learn to speak at a much faster rate, which can explan alan's impresive number of vocabulary.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.