According to Piaget, schemes are an important part of thought during a. infancy. Dr. Blather subscribes to the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis .
Children gradually infer grammatical rules by detecting regularities in speech.
Experience is not important for learning language. Language learning is definitively explained by the presence of an inborn grammar-learning device. All aspects of language are learned through imitation and reinforcement. Gene has discovered that even though he has underlined the most important information in the textbook, he does not know any of the material very well. He should determine the parts of the textbook he is not learning, and underline more in those parts of the textbook.