Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Language and Communication

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				The individual who proposed that there is a critical period for learning language.


2				The linguist who proposed that children are born with an innate grammatical ability that underlies all languages.


3				The psychologist who developed the concept of the language acquisition support system (LASS).


4				A social cognitive theorist who believes that the child learns primarily through imitation or observational learning.


5				The Canadian-born author who expanded on the work of Noam Chomsky to write the best-selling book The Language Instinct (1994).


6				A researcher from the University of British Columbia who reported that simplified speech serves to elicit positive emotion in infants and may increase the likelihood that the infant will understand the message.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

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