A2- Intellectual development across the life stages

Question 1

What did Noam Chomsky believe about the language acquisition?

Answer 1

The ability to develop a signed or spoken language is genetically programmed into individuals, regardless of other activities

Question 2

What age did Chomsky believe a child was fluent in their first language by?

Answer 2

5 or 6

Question 3

According to Chomsky, what does he believe everyone is innate (born) with?

Answer 3

Language development

Question 4

What tool does Chomsky believes everyone has and what does it do?

Answer 4

LAD- tool found in the brain that enables a child to develop the rules of language.

Question 5

What did Chomsky believe children need to do?

Answer 5

Experience language- not be trained as language develops due to maturation and grammar and syntax can’t be learnt

Question 6

A01- explain Chomsky’s focus on the development of grammatical skills
A03- critisms

Answer 6

A01- Once a child has developped skills they simply need new words
A03- Too much emphasis on role of grammar in language development, it fails to consider importance of meaning in sentence structure

Question 7

A01- explain Chomskys belief about “plural rules”
A03- Critisms

Answer 7

A01- Even if an adult uses correct grammar a child will still use the “plural rules” until maturation has taken place
A03- Bruner- social interaction/ nurture especially in early stages of development with adults/environment has far more influence on a child than Chomsky suggested

Question 8

Critics- is there alot of scientific evidence to support Chomsky’s theory

Answer 8

No, so this effects the theory’s credability and reliability

Question 9

In what way can Chomsky’s theory be classed as problematic?

Answer 9

To assume that language skills are acquired by every child by the age of 5/6- he doesnt consider individuals with development delays such as learning disabilities such as downsyndrome- his theory cant explain this

Question 10

What did Piagets research focus on?

Answer 10

How children acquire the ability to think

Question 11

In the 4 stages of intellectual development what is the sensorimotor stage?

Answer 11

o-2 yrs, infants think by interacting with the world using their eyes, ears, hands and mouth

Question 12

What is the preoperational stage?

Answer 12

2-7 yrs, dev of lang and make-believe play takes place. He believed that children at this stage can’t properly understand ideas e.g numbers, mass. Children have egocentric thinking

Question 13

What is the concrete stage?

Answer 13

Children’s reasoning becomes logical providing that issues are concrete- understand theory of conservation

Question 14

What is the formal operational stage?

Answer 14

Develops abstract thinking- enables indvs to think through complicated ideas in their hands without having to see concrete images

Question 15

Including the stages for the 1st point what did piaget say about them and whats the criticism?

Answer 15

Its natural for a child with cognitive ability, criticism: not all children go through all the stages, vygotsky sees stages as a continual progress

Question 16

2nd point each child has what? criticism? (setting)

Answer 16

innate ability to pass through all the stages for example the ability to conserve in concrete stage- during the stages the indvs schemas are accomodating new ideas. criticism: he fails to consider social setting impacting development, bruner- parental imput can cause a child to think logically

Question 17

3rd point: he offered what to each stage, criticism?

Answer 17

ages for each stage e.g preoperational is for 2-7 years, criticism: stages arnt fluid enough- children pass through stages at different times- gesell