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Why would learning language as a toddler be difficult to explain through the application of operant psychology shaping procedures?

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The expert examines how operant psychology is shaping procedures and leaning language as a toddler.

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Perhaps the most pertinent point in the argument that shaping as per operant conditioning can't explain a toddler's learning of language is the fact that operant conditioning requires a fairly unambiguous, high value reward. By extension, learning language via shaping of operant conditioning would require ...

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