AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING CONCEPTS AND CREATIVITY

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Which psychologist believed that we have an innate ability to learn languages, best demonstrated by our ability to learn any language if left with that culture as a baby?

A	Ivan Pavlov
B	Hermann Ebbinghaus
C	Elizabeth Loftus
D	B.F. Skinner
E	Noam Chomsky

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Noam Chomsky developed the language acquisition theory in order to explain this phenomenon. According to Chomsky, the ability to learn languages is an innate skill. Children are born with a language learning tool that he called a language acquisition device .

Detailed explanation-2: -The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chomsky concluded that children must have an inborn faculty for language acquisition. According to this theory, the process is biologically determined-the human species has evolved a brain whose neural circuits contain linguistic information at birth.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Innateness of Language Noam Chomsky is a modern linguist who claimed language is an inborn capacity of humans.

Detailed explanation-5: -A theory developed by Noam Chomsky who believed that every child has a Language Acquisition Device. The LAD is a structure in the brain that infants are born with, allowing them to quickly learn and understand language as they mature.

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