Inure GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /ɪˈnjʊəɼ/ (verb) Definition familiarize someone with something, accustom, habituate, acclimatize, desensitize, temper, adjust, condition, harden, toughen, season, become used to, naturalize, adapt Example Can Your Body Get inured to an Exercise? The answer is a reverberating “Yes!” It comes down to doing a few simple things to prevent it from happening.…
Skinner Skinner attempted to extend a classical behaviorist model of learning to language in his famous ‘Verbal Behavior’. His goal was to provide a way to predict and control verbal behavior by observing and manipulating the physical environment of the speaker. In his review of this work, Chomsky showed that the Skinnerian concepts for learning…
Behaviorism Behaviorism Empirical studies were primarily descriptive and totally objective in nature. In the late 1960s and 1970s, a growing consensus was reached that behaviourist theories of L2 learning were inadequate. L2 learners, like L1 learners, were credited with a ‘built-in-syllabus’, which guided their progress. According to the behaviourist hypothesis, the mind of the newborn…