Nativist Approaches to Infant Cognitive Development Suggest That
Nativist approaches to infant cognitive development suggest that infants bring a great deal more with them into the world than Piaget realized. Libertus in Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development 2008. Theories Of Language Development Nativist Learning Interactionist Language Development Language Human Language This paper argues on the contrary that there should be no presumption in favor of empiricism or nativism but that the existing evidence suggests that nativism is the most promising. . So first we start out with the nativist or innatist perspective. These three perspectives include the learning view the nativist view and the interactionist view. This factor contributes to the ongoing nature versus nurture. It is thought that Piaget underestimated memory ability in infants Schneider 20153. Skinner a prominent behaviorist and Noam Chomsky a prominent nativist to discuss and debate the mechanisms that und...