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

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Definitions:

Poisson Parameter

A parameter of the Poisson distribution that represents the average number of occurrences of an event in a fixed interval of time or space.

Mean Number

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Poisson Probability

The probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Binomial Probabilities

The probabilities of achieving a specific number of successes in a fixed number of Bernoulli trials, characterized by only two possible outcomes.