Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
empiricism [Grk émpeiros ‘experienced’]
In psychology an approach based on English positivism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume), which views experience as the foundation of all understanding.
This contrasts with nativism, which sees innate ideas as the basis for all cognitive development. As a methodological principle, namely ensuring the verifiability of knowledge through observable experience, empiricism plays a decisive role in the behaviorist views of language acquisition. (
also antimentalism, behaviorism, stimulus-response)
References
behaviorism, language acquisition, stimulus-response
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