“The cognitive approach was a reaction to the behaviorist fe...

“The cognitive approach was a reaction to the behaviorist features of the audio-lingual approach, influenced by cognitive psychology and Chomskyan linguistics. Cognitive psychology (Neisser, 1967) holds that people do not learn complex systems like language or mathematics through habit formation but through the acquisition of patterns and rules that they can then extend and apply to new circumstances or problems.” On this approach, it is correct the following statement: