behaviorisim

• Skinner

  • language is another form of imitation
  • children are 'tabula rasa'
• operant conditioning

  • the idea that reacting positivley or negativley can influence the way a child speaks
• Bobo doll

  • Albert Bandura
  • imitation theory
  • emphasizes the need for language modeling
• Genie

  • was in captivity from 20 months to 13 years well past critical period
  • whenever she made a noise she was beaten
  • Genie never progressed beyond the speech of a 3 year old
• Examples of behaviouisim in data

  • adults explicitly modeling language
  • Children immitating adults speech
  • children repairing mistakes after correction