CLA test questions and answers

Skinner - answer-behaviorism - learn from experience and feedback. keeps happening until automatic Chomsky - answer-a baby is born with universal grammar, hears examples of native language, helps it to make hypotheses about incoming language. LAD Piaget - answer-cognitivist, development of thinking. PIES. a child must understand concepts before they can use language to describe it Bruner - answer-language is transactional in society, children learn language because it is necessary to get things done. LASS. Parental support system assists language through gaining attention, query, label and feedback Lenneberg - answer-Critical theory hypothesis, expands on Chomsky. If language is not learned before puberty, language will not develop/be very difficult/not successful. Brain is malleable until then. Vygotsky - answer-scaffolding. children learn through observation, participation and interpretation which develops their semiotics. listening and talking to themselves (private and public speech) are important for development. Pinker - answer-evolution theorist, human brain has evolved to allow us to learn language. capacity for language rules and representation Berko-Gleason - answer-Wug test showed that they learn by hearing patterns rather then imitating others - must have implicit knowledge of basic morphological modifications such as -ed endings Piaget's Sensorimotor stage - answer-birth to 2 year old. The infant builds an understanding of himself or herself and reality. Able to differentiate between itself and other objects. L