maturationismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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maturationism (uncountable)

1. The theory that children acquire cognitive and behavioral abilities in a series of stages that reflect the biological development of the child's brain and body.
   • 1982, Robert J. Sternberg, Handbook of Human Intelligence, page 614:

     The overall regularity of development explains why a maturational theory survived as well as it did, but pure maturationism was nevertheless a straw-man position, vulnerable to attack.

   • 1989, David Ingram, First Language Acquisition, page 73:

     Here I would like to give two arguments for the selection of constructionism over maturationism as the correct underlying theory of acquisition.

   • 2007, Moncrieff Cochran, ‎Rebecca S. New, Early Childhood Education, page 509:

     Maturationism is a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the contribution of biological processes to children's development.

   • 2013, Juergen Weissenborn, ‎Helen Goodluck, ‎Thomas Roeper, Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition, page 27:

     Much like perceptionism, maturationism is not an entirely homogeneous body of theoretical assumptions, but rather a kind of leading idea (in the sense of Chomsky, 1981).