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maturationism en · NOUN

Etymology

From maturation + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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.
    • Here I would like to give two arguments for the selection of constructionism over maturationism as the correct underlying theory of acquisition. 1989, David Ingram, First Language Acquisition, page 73:
    • 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. 1982, Robert J. Sternberg, Handbook of Human Intelligence, page 614:
    • Maturationism is a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the contribution of biological processes to children's development. 2007, Moncrieff Cochran, Rebecca S. New, Early Childhood Education, page 509:
    • 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). 2013, Juergen Weissenborn, Helen Goodluck, Thomas Roeper, Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition, page 27: