The lectures of your linguistics professor, who happens to be a staunch behaviorist, clearly imply that she believes language de
velopment can be explained according to principles of conditioning. What evidence should you present to convince her that she is wrong? I don't understand why she is wrong in the first place, could someone please explain?
Well, I don't think you can present any evidence to show she is wrong. Behaviorists believe that children and any human being acquire language through conditioning - you present them with a condition under which they learn a certain language. Since this woman is a behaviorist, I don't see why she is wrong in believing what she does.
Billy gets frustrated and starts to cry. He pushes his bike down on the lawn and throws his helmet off. Then he tells his father that he doesn't want to learn how to ride a bike.
