WorksheetsChapter Four
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
According to behavioral theory, what is the process of learning to put together several verbal behaviors to create an utterance?
Association
Communicating
Chaining
Linking
According to behavioral theory, which responses to a verbal behavior will decrease the chance of it occurring again?
Punishing
Ignoring
Reinforcing
Sustaining
One shortcoming of the behavioral model is that...
...it is too difficult for interventionists to implement.
...it relies too much on the language acquisition device (LAD).
...it places too much emphasis on nature over nurture.
...it does not correctly predict the order in which children typically learn words.
By whom was the Nativist/Syntactic Model developed?
Jean Piaget
Noam Chomsky
Lois Bloom
Hans Asperger
What is the mechanism according to the Nativist/Syntactical model that consists of basic grammatical categories and rules that are common to all languages?
The Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
The Syntactical Achievement Mechanism (SAM)
Broca's Area
The Corpus Collosum
The Semantic-Cognitive Model argues that __________ precedes __________.
teaching precedes learning.
experience precedes language.
language precedes cognitive accomplishment.
thought precedes action.
Which model of language acquisition emphasizes that "children learn to choose the linguistic form that will best express their communicative intent"?
The Nativist/Syntactic Model
The Semantic Cognitive Model
The Social Interactionist Model
The Behavioral Model
What is information processing?
A model of human cognition that recognizes that learning takes place in a series of steps.
A model that emphasizes the communicative function of language.
A model developed by cultural anthropologists studying isolated people groups in South America.
A contemporary model of human cognition that emphasizes the interconnectedness of cognitive processes information.
Which model of language acquisition claims that language emerges from the interaction of input and biology?
The Modern Model
The Information Processing Model
The Emergentist Model
The Behavioral Model
Which model fully explains the process of language acquisition in children?
Current Models
No model explains the process fully
The Behavioral Model
The Emergentist Model
