CLA Theories

Is Behaviourism part of the nature or the nurture debate?

• Nature

• Nurture

Who devised the Innateness theory?

• Piaget
• Chomsky
• Skinner
• Bruner

Whose term is the 'Zone of proximal development'?

• Stephen Krashen

• Lev Vygotsky

• David Crystal

• Jean Piaget

What is it called when a child makes a mistake that make grammatical sense but isn't correct due to an irregular rule.

• Honest mistake

• Virtuous mistake

• Virtuous error

• A boo boo

Who suggests children learn by imitating adults?

• Chomsky

• Skinner

• Piaget

• Nelson

Is it fair to say there is only one correct theory?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Which arguments could be said to challenge Skinner's theories?

• Children don't respond to negative reinforcement

• Children eventually learn to say 'went' instead of 'goed'

• Children will create language they will not have heard adults use

• His experiments were't rigorous

• His experiments were on rats and pigeons

Which of the following are associated with Chomsky's innateness argument?

• Universal Grammar

• Language Acquisition Support System

• Positive reinforcement

• Language Acquisition Device

• Poverty of the stimulus

Is Innateness part of the nature or nurture debate?

• Nature

• Nurture

Who proposed that there was a critical period?

• Lev Vygotksy

• Jean Piaget

• Noam Chomsky

• Eric Lenenberg