final exam chapter 7

Question 1

require separating language behaviors from non-language behaviors.

Answer 1

descriptive adequacy

Question 2

is achieved when some finite number of unifying principle are identified that account for the emerging language behavior.

Answer 2

model adequacy

Question 3

achieved when a finite set of principles/rules is discovered that not only explains all the language behaviors observed but also is the actual set of rules used by language-learning children.

Answer 3

Theoretical adequacy

Question 4

the process of forming such associations.

Answer 4

classical conditioning

Question 5

is the form of learning most often used to fill this rule.

Answer 5

operate conditioning

Question 6

concerns the change in voluntary non-reflexive behavior that arise because of environmental consequence contingent upon the behavior.

Answer 6

operate conditioning

Question 7

predict the known fact of development but are not necessarily the principle by which language learning children actually operate.

Answer 7

model adequacy principle

Question 8

co-occur and predict specific verbal behavior (response).

Answer 8

environmental condition (stimuli)

Question 9

uses to account for a child’s development of receptive vocabulary additional learning principle must be applied to explain productive speech.

Answer 9

principle of classical conditioning

Question 10

according to the behavioral approach, plays the major role in the process of language acquisition from words to phrases to sentences.

Answer 10

Reinforcement

Question 11

is innate in humans.

Answer 11

Language

Question 12

is a form of learning.

Answer 12

language acquisition

Question 13

1. Assume that language has a structure or grammar that is somewhat independent of language use.
2. Suggests that we are born with something in our genes that allows us to learn language.

Answer 13

linguistic approach