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Modeling, Imitation Training, and the Acquisition of Sentence Phrases.
Grover J. Whitehurst,Gary Novak +1 more
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The authors compared imitation and modeling in a multiple-baseline individual analysis with the normal environment of language acquisition and found that imitation training was effective for every phrase type and subject while modeling was effective only for some subjects and some phrase types.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.The article was published on 1973-10-01. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive imitation & Imitation (music).read more
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The value of integrating handicapped and nonhandicapped preschool children
TL;DR: A conceptual and empirical framework is suggested to promote the development of handicapped preschool children through involvement with nonhandicapped peers and the need for systematically designed interaction is stressed.
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What is the role of reinforcement in early language acquisition
TL;DR: Differential reinforcement resulted in accelerating frequencies of spontaneous foreign language use and better performance on both comprehension and production tests, interpreted as evidence that the acquisition of expressive vocabulary is a function of socially mediated reinforcement.
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Is language acquired through imitation
Grover J. Whitehurst,Ross Vasta +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the role of imitation in language acquisition, including data from the psycholinguistic, operant, and social learning areas, concluding that imitation is a process by which new syntactic structures can be first introduced into the productive mode.
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Selective imitation of the passive construction through modeling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used passive sentences to describe a set of modeling stimuli, which the subjects were asked to describe without benefit of modeling and without selective reinforcement were interspersed among modeling stimuli.
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Social Learning Theory: A Contextualist Account of Cognitive Functioning
TL;DR: In the context of social learning, this article found that children acquire information and behavior by observing people in natural settings, and that the development of emotional reactions (attraction and avoidance), cognitive and linguistic rules, self-regulating responses, personal standards, expectations, and selfefficacy judgments are highly dependent on the social environmental context from which it sprang.
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Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology
TL;DR: The authors The central question in developmental psychology is the origins of new In P. H. Carmichael's manual of child Volume 1 of the Handbook of child and where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better,
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An experimental analysis of linguistic development: the productive use of the plural morpheme
TL;DR: Operant conditioning procedures were used to establish a generative use of the plural morpheme in the speech of a severely retarded girl, and several words whose plurals had been learned according to the reversed plural rule, when examined later during reinforcement of normal plural usage, were found to exemplify the normal rule being reinforced, yet without direct training.