CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Skinner’s theory of learning says that a person is first exposed to a stimulus, which elicits a response, and the response is then reinforced (stimulus, response, reinforcement). This, ultimately, is what conditions our behaviors. To make this process easier to remember, the ABCs of behaviorism were developed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chomsky believes that language is biologically inherited whereas Skinner’s theory is based on how a child learns how to talk through the use of positive reinforcement from adults who already speak a language fluently.

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: -In regards to the difference between Pavlov’s and Skinner’s theories, Pavlov’s theory focused on conditioning of the individual compared to Skinner’s theory that focused on the use of specific functions, or facilitators, to produce the behavior that was desired.