maturationism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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)."
Etymology
From maturation + -ism.