Multiple Choice
According to Skinner's theory of language acquisition,an infant learns to say "ma-ma" in the presence of her mother because:
A) this association is genetically built into the language acquisition device.
B) the mother is an unconditioned stimulus that elicits this unconditioned response.
C) speaking the word is intrinsically reinforcing.
D) mothers provide reinforcement for utterances that sound more and more like "ma-ma."
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