Psychologists Who Focus on Cognitive Explanations of Language Acquisition Draw

question 110

Multiple Choice

Psychologists who focus on cognitive explanations of language acquisition draw on whose ideas?

• A) Chomsky and the language acquisition device
• B) Piaget, Vygotsky, and the relationship between cognition and language
• C) Bandura and abstract modeling
• D) Skinner and reinforcement

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