The View That Language Development Is Produced Through a Combination

question 119

Multiple Choice

The view that language development is produced through a combination of genetically determined predispositions and environmental circumstances that help to teach language is known as the _____ approach.

• A)learning-theory
• B)nativist
• C)interactionist
• D)prescriptive

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Definitions:

Predisposition

Instances where learning occurs more rapidly or in a different form than expected.

Rapidly

Occurring within a short time or at a fast pace.

Environmental

Pertaining to the natural and physical surroundings in which an organism lives, and how these surroundings affect behavior and development.

Behavior Systems Approach

The idea that learning evolved as a modifier of innate behavior systems and functions to change the integration, tuning, instigation, or linkages within a particular system.