key terms

• operant conditioning

  • the idea that reacting positivley or negativley can influence the way a child speaks
  • school of thought: behaviourisim
  • theorist: skinner
• Poverty of the stimulus

  • the idea that the language which a child is exposed to is not sufficient to support all the development which occurs
  • school of thought: nativisim, Chomsky
• Object permenance

  • an understanding that objects still exist when they cannot be seen
• Zone of proximal development

  • the area inbetween what has already been learned and what is beyond reach
  • theorist: Vygostky
• Critical period

  • Eric Lenneberg
  • a period of time when a child is more likely to learn a skill or language
• Tabula rasa

  • blank slate
  • theorist- skinner