How Does Experience Impact Language? Be Sure to Directly Address

question 15

Essay

How does experience impact language? Be sure to directly address language development in the deaf, the acquisition of a second language, and the idea of a critical period in language acquisition.

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is first made meaningful through classical conditioning. Then, another stimulus is paired with the first, causing the second stimulus to elicit the conditioned response even in the absence of the first.

Shaping

A method of positively reinforcing behaviors that are successively closer to the desired behavior.

Extinguish

In the context of psychology, to gradually reduce or eliminate a learned response by ceasing to reinforce the behavior.

Loudness

The perception of the intensity or volume of a sound, influenced by its amplitude and frequency, and measured in decibels.