You are having a conversation with your psychology professor and she proposes that children acquire language the same way they learn everything else, through reinforcement and other established principles of conditioning. Which of the following theorists would MOST likely agree with her assertions?
A)David Premack
B)B. F. Skinner
C)Steven Pinker
D)Noam Chomsky

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B. F. Skinner is most associated with the idea that language acquisition occurs through principles of conditioning and reinforcement. He argued that children learn language through operant conditioning, where behaviors (in this case, language use) are reinforced.

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