CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
There is evidence to support the idea that there is an inborn tendency to absorb language. Which of the following psychologists would agree with this statement?
A
Chomsky
B
Whorf
C
Skinner
D
Sapir
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Noam Chomsky’s language theory included the idea that: Children have an innate mental grammar. There is evidence to support the idea that there is an inborn tendency to absorb language.

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: -Which of the following is the best example of the use of the availability heuristic? Making a judgement according to past experiences that are most easily recalled.

Detailed explanation-4: -A really famous example of functional fixedness involves a candle, thumbtacks, and a box of matches.

Detailed explanation-5: -Functional fixedness is when one fails to find an object to solve a problem. For example if one had no hammer to hammer in a nail and didn’t realize he could use his bat, he could not figure out how to drive a nail.

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