Child Studies Flashcards
Stephen Krashem
children better acquire and use language when anxiety removed
Jean Berko wug experiment
- Shown wig
- Showed two wugs, child responded with two wugs - added ‘s’ bound morpheme without prompt
Leslie Rescorla
Overheard speech like TV is no substitute for real parental interaction
Alison Clarke Stewart
Mothers talk to them
Larger vocabulary
Gives credit to CDS
Kathryn Nelson
Mothers who correct child actually hindered development
Brown/Cazden/Bellugi
Mothers often respond to truth value rather than grammatical correctness
Roger Brown
Parents more likely to correct children on lexical errors
Clarke & Clarke
Any form of CDS, even baby talk helps acquire language more quickly
Vgotsky
Scaffolding, adults support children through prompts and encouragement
Skinner
Behaviourist theory
Tanner
Female - child: intimate social interaction builds relationship
Male - child: focuses on indepdendence/practicality
Bruners LASS
Language is guided, support system
what is behaviourist theory
language acquired through conditioning
Piaget
Abstract concepts difficult to understand
Hand in hand with cognitive development
Jean Aitchisons 3 stages
Labelling
Packaging
Network Building
What is labelling
Linking words to objects
What is packaging
Exploring labels and to what they can apply - over/under extension
Overextension example
Doggie for all dogs