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Spoken Language Acquisition Quiz

Izzy Backhouse 13 questions

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  1. 1• Leslie [blank_start]Rescorla[blank_end] – [blank_start]1980[blank_end]
    Studied children's [blank_start]overextensions[blank_end] and established 3 main types:
    1) Categorical = a word for a member of one category is extended to other members of the same category.
    eg. using 'apple' to label all fruit
    2) [blank_start]Analogical[blank_end] = a word for one object used for another object that bears a similar function of physical attribute.
    eg. calling a hat a 'hairbrush' (as both are used on head)
    3) [blank_start]Predicate[blank_end]/Mismatch Statements = a word used to make a statement in relation to another object.
    eg. saying 'Dolly' upon seeing an empty doll's bed

    Findings showed that the majority of a child's overextensions were [blank_start]categorical[blank_end].
    - [blank_start]25[blank_end]% mismatch statements
    - 15% [blank_start]analogical[blank_end]
    1. ARescorla
    2. B1980
    3. Coverextensions
    4. DAnalogical
    5. EPredicate
    6. Fcategorical
    7. Ganalogical
    8. H25
  2. 2What type of theorist was Chomsky?
    1. ABehaviourist
    2. BNativist
    3. CConstructivist
    4. DGenetic epistemologist
  3. 3What type of theorist was Skinner?
    1. ABehaviourist
    2. BConstructivist
    3. CNativist
    4. DGenetic epistemologist
  4. 4What type of theorist was Bruner?
    1. AGenetic epistemologist
    2. BNativist
    3. CConstructivist
    4. DBehaviourist
  5. 5What type of theorist was Piaget?
    1. ANativist
    2. BBehaviourist
    3. CGenetic epistemologist
    4. DConstructivist
  6. 6What is the Zone of Proximal Development?Image for question 6
    1. AAll the different things a child needs to learn in order to progress.
    2. BThe difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help.
  7. 7What is 'scaffolding'?
    1. AA term closely related to ZPD, developed by other sociocultural theorists applying Vygotsky's ZPD to educational contexts.
    2. BThe process of increasing a child's self-confidence by working closely with their peers until they no longer need the support.
    3. CScaffolding is a process through which a teacher or more competent peer gives aid to the student in her/his ZPD as necessary, and tapers off this aid as it becomes unnecessary, much as a scaffold is removed from a building during construction.
  8. 8Complete the table to show the stages of cognitive development according to Piaget's theory.Image for question 8
    1. ASensorimotor
    2. BPreoperational
    3. CConcrete Operations
    4. DFormal Operations
  9. 9Genetic [blank_start]epistemology[blank_end] (theory of [blank_start]cognitive[blank_end] development):
    [blank_start]Piaget[blank_end] believed that cognitive development is [blank_start]facilitated[blank_end] by providing activities or situations that engage learners and require adaptation.

    [blank_start]Assimilation[blank_end] = a cognitive process that manages how we take in new information and incorporate that new information into our [blank_start]existing[blank_end] knowledge.

    [blank_start]Accommodation[blank_end] = the altering of previous concepts in the face of new [blank_start]information[blank_end].
    1. Aepistemology
    2. Bcognitive
    3. CPiaget
    4. Dfacilitated
    5. EAssimilation
    6. Fexisting
    7. GAccommodation
    8. Hinformation
  10. 10Piaget - [blank_start]Egocentrism[blank_end]
    Childrens' thoughts and communications are typically egocentric (i.e. about [blank_start]themselves[blank_end]).
    Egocentrism = child's [blank_start]inability[blank_end] to see a situation from another person's point of view.

    According to Piaget, the egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the [blank_start]same[blank_end] as the child does.
    1. AEgocentrism
    2. Bthemselves
    3. Cinability
    4. Dsame

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