Describe the three major categorical theories of language de

Describe the three major categorical theories of language development, as listed below. Consider the emphasis each places on innate abilities versus environmental influences. Also attribute key terms and theorists with one of the following categories, write a one-page report on a language theorist or researcher who asserts a position that is different from your own preferred notion. Behaviorist Nativist Interactionist Describe the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development

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LO15: Sensorimotor -cognitive development: According to Piaget, preschool children, infants (6 months old) & toddlers are mainly involved in learning motor skills by experimenting bodily sensation with physical world. For example, One year -old James is staking his blocks and 14-year old Peter is pushing his car but the two children pay no attention to each other as they play on the floor. In these two tasks, toddlers are trying learn sensorimotor play to increase their motor skills in the form of functional play due to memory-related cognitive development

Functional play: This type of physical environment is going to enable children to improve their musculoskeletal activities along with brain activity followed by their cognitive activity to remember. This developmental cognitive activity is in partner with brain sensorimotor areas result in imitation, repetitions as well as manipulations.

The major personality changes of early childhood includes an initiative stage in which infants, toddlers & pre-school stage children obtain capabilities of “asserting control over the surroundings through interaction as well as play that improves sensorimotor activity” followed by memory-related cognitive development. In the initiative stage, children often have ambition & responsibility, self-confidence to finish a task with a learning plan finally, achieves the goal. They always try to resolves sensory& motor tasks through a task of initiative vs. guilt. The personality of feeling of guilt is developed in early childhood due to lack of “positive reinforcement” & due to “over-controlling parents” result in children often do not show interest to interact with other children to attain their behavioral aspects to achieve a goal through learning process finally loss of self-confidence