Innate Learning Abilities in Children
Subject
Piaget's View on Child Learning
Piaget concluded that babies aren't just born in possession of adult knowledge, either from a past life or from DNA. Instead, Piaget thought that children must have powerful learning mechanisms that allow them to construct new pictures of the world, pictures that might be very different from the adult picture. When we learn about the world, when we do science. for example, we don't just hit the right answer once and…
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Object
The Possible Innate Nature of Language Acquisition in Children
Consider first the nature of primary linguistic data. This consists of a finite amount of information about sentences, which, furthermore, must be rather restricted in scope, considering the time limitations that are in effect, and fairly degenerate in quality (cf. note 1 4). For example, certain signals might be accepted as properly formed sentences, while others are classed as nonsentences, as a result of…
Why they relate
Children are like scientists, innately capable of understanding the world through experimentation, they also may have in-built mechanisms for learning language.