Meaning of maturationism | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

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Examples

“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.”

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

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

“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).”

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