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The ability to perform certain tasks appears to change over time. How can we determine if these changes are the result of maturation or learning? Does either maturation or learning take precedence over the other? Explain your answer.

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Learning and maturation are contextualized in this case. Whether maturation or learning takes precedence over the other is explained.

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Hi. Learning and maturation can be looked at in one of two ways. First there is learning that should occur when a critical point in the maturation cycle has occurred. For instance, children around the age of two need to be exposed to as much communication/language skills as possible because this is a critical time for this.

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