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Comparing Perspectives of psychology - Language Acquisition and Key Perspectives.
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Have a little read: ... Comparing Perspectives of psychology Language Acquisition Key Perspectives * Behaviourist approach - Operant conditioning * Social Learning Theory * (Biological approach) * (Social-Interaction approach) Behaviourist Perspective to explain Language Acquisition * Skinners work on the behaviourist approach to psychology was later applied to the acquisition of language in 1957. * Skinner believed that from birth, we learn through observation and reinforcement of our behaviour. Clearly his famous work on rats in the Skinner box supports this influential theory. When placed in a box, a lever was to be pulled in order to obtain food. Having learnt that pulling the lever releases food, this behaviour is learned and therefore repeated because the food is seen as a form of positive reinforcement. * This theory can be used to explain the acquisition of language. As a baby, we are unable to speak. * By the age of 3 months we tend to babble and gargle. Skinner suggested that these noises form an early
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