Answer each question below to the best of your ability. Results are at the end. Enjoy!
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Which theory of language development suggests that children learn appropriate sounds and words in reaction to their parents’ reinforcement?
Behaviorist
Innatist
Cognitive
Contextual
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Regardless of culture, children begin to learn language around the same time all over the world. At about what age is this?
Between 6 and 8 months
Between 8 and 28 months
Between 2 and 4 years
Between 5 and 7 years
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Which theorist hypothesized that children are born with a language acquisition device?
Chomsky
Piaget
Skinner
Vygotsky
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According to which theorist is symbolic thought a precondition for language acquisition?
Chomsky
Piaget
Skinner
Vygotsky
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Piaget has been criticized for underestimating what factor in language development?
Biology
Intelligence
Social interaction
Biology and intelligence
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According to which theorist do thought and language originate independently, but later merge?
Chomsky
Piaget
Skinner
Vygotsky
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Which theorist places the most importance on social interaction in the development of language?
Chomsky
Piaget
Skinner
Vygotsky
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According to which theory of language development is language constructed within a particular sociocultural context, depending on cognitive and environmental factors?
Behaviorist
Innatist
Cognitive
Contextual
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Children’s first words most commonly refer to what?
Concrete objects
Abstract ideas
Time
Colors
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The recognition that children who pretend they are reading or writing understand a great deal about literacy is characteristic of what approach to literacy?
