Child Language Acquisition

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What is the Behaviourist Theory?
A theory where every child acquires responses and understanding of language based on their surroundings
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Who thought of the Behaviourist Theory?
Skinner
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What is the Nativist Theory?
A theory where every child is born with a biological predisposition to learn language
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Who thought of the Nativist Theory?
Chomsky
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What is the Cognitive Theory?
A theory where every child has an information processor that builds up information including perception, attention, language, memory, thinking and consciousness
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Who thought of the Cognitive Theory?
Piaget
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What is the process of stimulus evoking a response called?
Classical Conditioning (B Theory)
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What is the point of the Classical Conditioning response?
We can understand behaviour by looking at the causes of an action and its consequences
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What is the process of reinforcement evoking repetition called?
Operant Conditioning (B Theory)
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What is the point of the Operant Conditioning response?
We can understand repeated behaviour as behaviour that is not reinforced is usually not repeated
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What is the name of the inbuilt device children may have to help them understand language?
LAD (Language Acquisition Device) (N Theory)
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What is Chomsky's 'Poverty of Stimulus'?
The quality of language children hear from parents and carers isn’t high enough to simply copy or imitate
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