BEHAVIOURIST

BEHAVIOURIST

1. Skinner

   • If we do something and it has a positive consequence, we are more likely to do it again

2. Language is acquired through imitation and positive and negative reinforcement

3. When a child speaks, they are rewarded.

   • This reinforcement shapes the child's use of language and ensures they develop it successfully

4. Role of CDS

   • You correct your child, and your child will remember and reproduce it

5. Evaluation

   • Imitation plays and important role in phonological development
   • All children seem to pass the same stages at the same time, regardless of the amount of reinforcement
   • Children develop an understanding of rhos grammar works, therefore they are not imitating what they have learnt
     • WUG test counteracts this- children haven't heard of 'WUGs'