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 theorist would agree with her assertions?
A) David Premack
B) B. F. Skinner
C) Steven Pinker
D) Noam Chomsky

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B.F. Skinner was a behaviorist who believed that all behavior, including language acquisition, is learned through principles of conditioning, such as reinforcement and punishment. He proposed the idea of operant conditioning, which suggests that behaviors that are reinforced are more likely to be repeated in the future. This aligns with the professor's proposal that children acquire language through reinforcement and conditioning principles. David Premack, Steven Pinker, and Noam Chomsky, on the other hand, have proposed different theories of language acquisition that do not emphasize behaviorist principles of conditioning.

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