The Theorist Responsible for Proposing That Human Beings Are Born

question 59

Multiple Choice

The theorist responsible for proposing that human beings are born with built-in grammar that allows us an innate ability to develop language skill was

• A)B.F. Skinner.
• B)Benjamin Whorf.
• C)Edward Sapir.
• D)Noam Chomsky.

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Definitions:

State Mental Hospitals

Publicly funded institutions that provide mental health care and treatment for people with various psychiatric disorders.

Talk Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that involves discussing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with a mental health professional to address and manage mental health issues.

Prefrontal Lobotomy

A surgical procedure used in the past to treat certain mental disorders, involving the severing of connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex, now largely discredited due to its serious side effects and ethical concerns.

Egas Moniz

A Portuguese neurologist who is credited with the development of cerebral angiography and the controversial prefrontal leucotomy, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949.