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CLA Theories

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Is Behaviourism part of the nature or the nurture debate?

a)

Nature

b)

Nurture

2.
Who devised the Innateness theory?
a)
Piaget
b)
Chomsky
c)
Skinner
d)
Bruner
3.

Whose term is the 'Zone of proximal development'?

a)

Stephen Krashen

b)

Lev Vygotsky

c)

David Crystal

d)

Jean Piaget

4.

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

a)

Honest mistake

b)

Virtuous mistake

c)

Virtuous error

d)

A boo boo

5.

Who suggests children learn by imitating adults?

a)

Chomsky

b)

Skinner

c)

Piaget

d)

Nelson

6.

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

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Maybe

7.

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

a)

Children don't respond to negative reinforcement

b)

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

c)

Children will create language they will not have heard adults use

d)

His experiments were't rigorous

e)

His experiments were on rats and pigeons

8.

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

a)

Universal Grammar

b)

Language Acquisition Support System

c)

Positive reinforcement

d)

Language Acquisition Device

e)

Poverty of the stimulus

9.

Is Innateness part of the nature or nurture debate?

a)

Nature

b)

Nurture

10.

Who proposed that there was a critical period?

a)

Lev Vygotksy

b)

Jean Piaget

c)

Noam Chomsky

d)

Eric Lenenberg

11.

What did Bard and Sachs 1977 discuss?

a)

The fis phenomenon

b)

Comprehension precedes production

c)

Genie

d)

Jim, hearing child of deaf parents

e)

Nicaraguan sign language

12.

How many cognitive development steps did Piaget create?

a)

one

b)

three

c)

four

d)

two

13.

Piaget's cognitive development has been instrumental in determining the structure of educational curricula.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Who is associated with the Social Interaction theory?

a)

Bruner

b)

Chomsky

c)

Skinner

d)

Piaget

15.

Who coined the term LAD (Language Acquisition Device)?

a)

Bruner

b)

Vygotsky

c)

Chomsky

d)

Lenneberg

16.

Which of these are true of the cognitive theories

a)

children learn language by imitation

b)

social interaction is crucial to learning

c)

language and thought are developmentally related

d)

language is innate

17.

Which of these are associated with Social Interaction theory

a)

the blank slate

b)

the critical period

c)

CDS (Child Directed Speech)

d)

The LASS (Language Acquisition Support System)

18.

What does LASS stand for

a)

Loud Acoustic Sound System

b)

Language Acquisition Support System

c)

Language And Sound System

d)

Learning And Support System

19.

Vygotsky is associated with which of the following

a)

MKO

b)

CDS

c)

ZPD

d)

LAD

20.

Which idea is often said to be supported by the case study of 'Genie'

a)

Critical period

b)

MKO

c)

CDS

d)

imitation