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Chapter Four

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to behavioral theory, what is the process of learning to put together several verbal behaviors to create an utterance?

a)

Association

b)

Communicating

c)

Chaining

d)

Linking

2.

According to behavioral theory, which responses to a verbal behavior will decrease the chance of it occurring again?

a)

Punishing

b)

Ignoring

c)

Reinforcing

d)

Sustaining

3.

One shortcoming of the behavioral model is that...

a)

...it is too difficult for interventionists to implement.

b)

...it relies too much on the language acquisition device (LAD).

c)

...it places too much emphasis on nature over nurture.

d)

...it does not correctly predict the order in which children typically learn words.

4.

By whom was the Nativist/Syntactic Model developed?

a)

Jean Piaget

b)

Noam Chomsky

c)

Lois Bloom

d)

Hans Asperger

5.

What is the mechanism according to the Nativist/Syntactical model that consists of basic grammatical categories and rules that are common to all languages?

a)

The Language Acquisition Device (LAD)

b)

The Syntactical Achievement Mechanism (SAM)

c)

Broca's Area

d)

The Corpus Collosum

6.

The Semantic-Cognitive Model argues that __________ precedes __________.

a)

teaching precedes learning.

b)

experience precedes language.

c)

language precedes cognitive accomplishment.

d)

thought precedes action.

7.

Which model of language acquisition emphasizes that "children learn to choose the linguistic form that will best express their communicative intent"?

a)

The Nativist/Syntactic Model

b)

The Semantic Cognitive Model

c)

The Social Interactionist Model

d)

The Behavioral Model

8.

What is information processing?

a)

A model of human cognition that recognizes that learning takes place in a series of steps.

b)

A model that emphasizes the communicative function of language.

c)

A model developed by cultural anthropologists studying isolated people groups in South America.

d)

A contemporary model of human cognition that emphasizes the interconnectedness of cognitive processes information.

9.

Which model of language acquisition claims that language emerges from the interaction of input and biology?

a)

The Modern Model

b)

The Information Processing Model

c)

The Emergentist Model

d)

The Behavioral Model

10.

Which model fully explains the process of language acquisition in children?

a)

Current Models

b)

No model explains the process fully

c)

The Behavioral Model

d)

The Emergentist Model