5 Questions
Which position believes that children come into the world with innate knowledge and predispositions?
Nativist position
According to the extreme behaviorist position, how do children acquire knowledge and language?
Children are shaped by their environment and conditioned through rewards
Which position emphasizes the importance of interaction and discourse in language acquisition?
Functional position
What do the extreme behaviorist position and the nativist position represent?
Opposites on a continuum
How many hypotheses does the position relying on innate knowledge and interaction have?
2
Test your knowledge of language development theories! Explore the extreme behaviorist view versus the innateness hypothesis in this quiz. Discover how different perspectives shape our understanding of how children acquire language.
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