Chapters 2, 10

Question 1

Interactionist Theory

Answer 1

Cognitive interactionist and Social interactionist : both of which presume that the child brings some preexisting info to the task of language learning and that her environmental input plays a significant role in her language development

Question 2

Cognitive interactionist includes:

Answer 2

Information Processing and Cognitive Constructivist

Question 3

Social interactionist includes:

Answer 3

Social-Cognitive, Social-Pragmatic, and Intentionality Model

Question 4

Interactionist Information Processing Models aka Connectionist people

Answer 4

Osgood, Cairns & Cairns

Question 5

Osgood’s model identifies the modalities that were said to underlie language functioning

Answer 5

visual and auditory memory, auditory discrimination, visual association, visual reception, and auditory closure BRAIN FUNCTION

Question 6

Interactionist Cognitive Constructivist Model person

Answer 6

Jean Piaget

Question 7

model of functional invariants

Answer 7

schemas, assimilation, accommodation, adaption

Question 8

schemas

Answer 8

mental structures correspond to consistencies in the infant’s or child’s behaviors or actions

Question 9

assimilation

Answer 9

when a child applies a mental schema to an event; embodies play, exploration, and learning about the environment

Question 10

accommodation

Answer 10

a result of the child’s new experience with an object, event, or person, and embodies the child’s ability to incorporate the new info, resulting in changes in the child’s mental schema

Question 11

adaptation

Answer 11

consists of assimilation and accommodation (i.e. the mechanisms for the acquisition of knowledge)

Question 12

piagetian view

Answer 12

maintains that a direct relationship exists between cognitive achievements and later linguistic achievements