CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Theory of Imitation: the idea that children imitated what they heard around them. This theory is based on the behaviorism of B. F. Skinner and the work of Pavlov.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some of the most important developmental psychologists, including Switzerland’s Jean Piaget, assumed that children developed the ability to imitate during the first year of their lives.

Detailed explanation-3: -Skinner suggested that a child imitates the language of its parents or carers. Successful attempts are rewarded because an adult who recognises a word spoken by a child will praise the child and/or give it what it is asking for. Successful utterances are therefore reinforced while unsuccessful ones are forgotten.

Detailed explanation-4: -B.F Skinner (1904-1990) proposed that children learn from consequences of behaviour. In other words if children experience pleasantness as a result of their behaviour, then they are likely to repeat that behaviour.

Detailed explanation-5: -Skinner. Skinner (1957) argued that language acquisition could be explained by mechanisms of operant conditioning (OC). OC is a technique that can be used to target and increase a behavior by pairing performance of the target behavior with a positive or rewarding outcome (Domjan, 2010).