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maturationist, n. and a. Psychol. and Linguistics (chiefly N. Amer.).|mætjʊˈreɪʃənɪst|
[f. maturation n. + -ist.]
A. n. One who holds that genetic factors are more important than environmental ones in determining a child's development, esp. with regard to the acquisition of language.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or advocating such a view.
1967Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 12 Aug. XCVII. 325/1 The ‘maturationists’..consider the intrinsic biological mechanisms of the child of such importance [as a factor in enuresis] as to render environmental factors relatively inconsequential. 1985Jrnl. Humanistic Educ. & Devel. XXIV. Sept. 10 The maturationist believes knowledge is the consequence of innate patterning. 1991Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXXVI. 431 The developmental problem is particularly relevant to the issues addressed by Matthews and Demopoulos, since..maturationist solutions depend on an even stronger hypothesis of innateness. 1992Developmental Psychol. XXVIII. 377/2 A further important way in which the maturationist principles of Gesell recur in current developmental work is through the search of genetic continuity in individual differences. |