All of the Following Are Claims of the Behaviorist Approach

question 64

Multiple Choice

All of the following are claims of the behaviorist approach to language learning EXCEPT:

• A) parents and other caregivers gradually shape infants' linguistic response patterns, which gradually become more like adult language
• B) parents should respond more positively to babbles that resemble adult speech sound and more negatively to those that do not
• C) parents should respond more positively as children utter strings of words that come closer and closer to adult grammatical patterns
• D) bilingual and even trilingual children should acquire all their languages together at about the same time as monolingual children