Spoken Language Acquisition Quiz

• Leslie [blank_start]Rescorla[blank_end] – [blank_start]1980[blank_end] Studied children's [blank_start]overextensions[blank_end] and established 3 main types: 1) Categorical = a word for a member of one category is extended to other members of the same category. eg. using 'apple' to label all fruit 2) [blank_start]Analogical[blank_end] = a word for one object used for another object that bears a similar function of physical attribute. eg. calling a hat a 'hairbrush' (as both are used on head) 3) [blank_start]Predicate[blank_end]/Mismatch Statements = a word used to make a statement in relation to another object. eg. saying 'Dolly' upon seeing an empty doll's bed Findings showed that the majority of a child's overextensions were [blank_start]categorical[blank_end]. - [blank_start]25[blank_end]% mismatch statements - 15% [blank_start]analogical[blank_end]

What type of theorist was Chomsky?

What type of theorist was Skinner?

What type of theorist was Bruner?

What type of theorist was Piaget?

What is the Zone of Proximal Development?

What is 'scaffolding'?

Complete the table to show the stages of cognitive development according to Piaget's theory.

Genetic [blank_start]epistemology[blank_end] (theory of [blank_start]cognitive[blank_end] development): [blank_start]Piaget[blank_end] believed that cognitive development is [blank_start]facilitated[blank_end] by providing activities or situations that engage learners and require adaptation. [blank_start]Assimilation[blank_end] = a cognitive process that manages how we take in new information and incorporate that new information into our [blank_start]existing[blank_end] knowledge. [blank_start]Accommodation[blank_end] = the altering of previous concepts in the face of new [blank_start]information[blank_end].

Piaget - [blank_start]Egocentrism[blank_end] Childrens' thoughts and communications are typically egocentric (i.e. about [blank_start]themselves[blank_end]). Egocentrism = child's [blank_start]inability[blank_end] to see a situation from another person's point of view. According to Piaget, the egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the [blank_start]same[blank_end] as the child does.

Who studied the acquisition of children's inflections?

In 1973, [blank_start]Brown[blank_end] studied children's language development between 20 and 36 months and found a regularly occurring sequence in the acquisition of [blank_start]inflections[blank_end]. 1) [blank_start]-ing[blank_end] 2) plural 's' 3) [blank_start]possessive 's'[blank_end] 4) past tense -ed 5) [blank_start]3rd person singular verb ending[blank_end] eg. he sings 6) auxilarly verb [blank_start]'to be'[blank_end] eg. I am dancing

Cruttenden [blank_start]1979[blank_end], divided the acquisition of inflections into 3 stages: 1) Children memorise words [blank_start]on an individual basis[blank_end]. 2) Awareness of general rules of inflections develops. [blank_start]Overgeneralisations[blank_end] occur at this stage, eg. 'runned' instead of 'ran' 3) Correct inflections are used.