[1] Domain-general views instead suggest that children possess a "general developmental function" where skills are interrelated through a single cognitive system.
An early supporter was Jerry Fodor, who argued that the mind functions partly, by innate, domain-specific mental modules.
[8] The Poverty of the Stimulus (PoS) argument proposed by Noam Chomsky takes a nativist view towards language acquisition suggesting that innate, domain-specific knowledge structures help us to navigate tough linguistic environments.
[9][10] Chomsky believed that children cannot be empiricist learners of language, because many linguistic principles are neither simple nor natural to acquire.
[11] The way children deal with environmental irregularity has therefore led to the proposition of a domain-specific language hypothesis space.
Many critics have argued against the convincingness of the PoS argument, stating that Chomsky's theory is vague, incoherent and untestable.
It has commonly been viewed as a product of domain-general learning, with the same organisational principles applying to child development, regardless of setting, task or developmental stage.
Protection Primarily responsible for giving the child a sense of security through adopting a comforting parenting style.
Consequently, outcomes involving a child's ability to suppress conflicting desires to make the correct moral and principled judgements are typical.
Successful outcomes involve children conforming to and adopting group values that build on their notions of social identity.
[17] Similarly, Spearman proposed an underlying, domain-general g-factor (general intelligence) to explain one's performance on all types of mental tests.